| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: "Come in, sir," said Mr. Wentworth, with an angular wave of his hand.
"It is very proper that you should be present."
"I know what you are talking about," Mr. Brand rejoined.
"I heard what your nephew said."
"And he heard what you said!" exclaimed Felix, patting him again
on the arm.
"I am not sure that I understood," said Mr. Wentworth,
who had angularity in his voice as well as in his gestures.
Gertrude had been looking hard at her former suitor.
She had been puzzled, like her sister; but her imagination
moved more quickly than Charlotte's. "Mr. Brand asked you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: to guide them where to go," observed the grey donkey, as he walked
before the visitors on his hind legs, in an awkward but comical manner;
"but clever donkeys know their way about without such absurd marks.
Moreover, a mixed city is much prettier than one with straight streets."
Dorothy did not agree with this, but she said nothing to contradict it.
Presently she saw a sign on a house that read: "Madam de Fayke, Hoofist,"
and she asked their conductor:
"What's a 'hoofist,' please?"
"One who reads your fortune in your hoofs," replied the grey donkey.
"Oh, I see," said the little girl. "You are quite civilized here."
"Dunkiton," he replied, "is the center of the world's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: It's not his own income he's nursing, and so he doesn't care how small he
makes it, provided only that his investments would be always called safe.
Now there are ways of being safe without spending any trouble or time
upon it; and those are the ways a trustee will take. For example,' and
here he arose and unhooking a file of current quotations from the wall,
placed it in my lap as I sat beside him. 'now here are Government three's
selling at 108 3-8. They are as safe as the United States; and if I
advised you to buy them, it would cost me no thought, and my character
for safety would run no risk of a blemish. That is the sort of bond that
a trustee recommends. But see what income it gives you. Roughly speaking,
about twenty-eight thousand dollars.'"
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