| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: My heart stopped beating. Was SHE married to him? She was indeed.
My dream was over. And the worst part of it was that for a married
man I had done without Food or exercise and now stood in a hot
closet in danger of a terrable fuss.
"No, thank Heaven!" said Mrs. Patten. "But it was the only way to
make him work. He is a lazy dog. But don't worry. We'll feed him
before he sees you. He's always rather tractible after he's fed."
Were ALL my dreams to go? Would they leave nothing to my shattered
ilusions? Alas, no.
"Jolly him a little, to," said----can I write it?--Mrs. Beecher.
"Tell him he's the greatest thing in the World. That will help
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: Selina to go; she can meet us on the other side. Come on,
let's go, huh, will you?"
Trina still had her mania for family picnics, which had been
one of the Sieppes most cherished customs; but now there
were other considerations.
"I don't know as we can afford it this month, Mac," she
said, pouring the chocolate. "I got to pay the gas bill
next week, and there's the papering of your office to be
paid for some time."
"I know, I know," answered her husband. "But I got a new
patient this week, had two molars and an upper incisor
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: civitatibus ut sine periculo ad eum portari possent efficiebat. In eo
flumine pons erat. Ibi praesidium ponit et in altera parte fluminis
Q. Titurium Sabinum legatum cum sex cohortibus relinquit; castra in
altitudinem pedum XII vallo fossaque duodeviginti pedum muniri iubet.
Ab his castris oppidum Remorum nomine Bibrax aberat milia passuum
VIII. Id ex itinere magno impetu Belgae oppugnare coeperunt. Aegre eo
die sustentatum est. Gallorum eadem atque Belgarum oppugnatio est haec:
ubi circumiecta multitudine hominum totis moenibus undique in murum
lapides iaci coepti sunt murusque defensoribus nudatus est, testudine
facta portas succedunt murumque subruunt. Quod tum facile fiebat. Nam
cum tanta multitudo lapides ac tela %coicerent%, in muro consistendi
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