| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic: "The little girl has just gone with a note from Mrs. Gordon of
Temple Street to seek redress of the mayor. I doubt not you will
be prosecuted at once. You have an opportunity to save yourself."
"What do you mean by that, you young puppy?" said the broker,
angrily. "Do you mean to say I stole the watch?"
"By no means; only that you took what did not belong to you,"
replied Master Simon, blandly.
"Get out of my shop!"
"Understand me, sir; I come as your friend."
"You are a fool, I believe."
"You have an undoubted right to your opinion, as I have to mine;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: so calm, dear, and so resolute, so serene!
"It's girls like you who will show them what We are," said Miss
Miniver; "girls whose spirits have not been broken!"
Ann Veronica sunned herself a little in this warmth.
"I was watching you at Morningside Park, dear," said Miss
Miniver. "I am getting to watch all women. I thought then
perhaps you didn't care, that you were like so many of them. NOW
it's just as though you had grown up suddenly."
She stopped, and then suggested: "I wonder--I should love--if it
was anything _I_ said."
She did not wait for Ann Veronica's reply. She seemed to assume
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: was wholly unprepared for the flying advent of Maggie.
"Oh, plaze, sir," she cried, pointing with trembling fingers
toward the babes in Jimmy's arms, "me fadder's coming right
behind me. He's a-lookin' for you sir."
"For me," murmured Jimmy, wondering vaguely why everybody on
earth seemed to be looking for HIM.
"Put 'em down, sir," cried Maggie, still pointing to the three
babies, "put 'em down. He's liable to wallop you."
"Put 'em where?" asked Jimmy, now utterly confused as to which
way to turn.
"There," said Maggie, and she pointed to the cradle beneath his
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