| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: but if you Sunday drivers would all strike for a day of rest
the thing would be done."
"And what would all the good people do if they could not get
to their favorite preachers?" said Larry.
"'Tis not for me to lay down plans for other people," said Jerry,
"but if they can't walk so far they can go to what is nearer;
and if it should rain they can put on their mackintoshes as they do
on a week-day. If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong
it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.
And that is as true for us cabmen as it is for the church-goers."
37 The Golden Rule
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: buggy's wheels.
Steadily the distance between the Leaguers and the posse
diminished.
"Don't let them get too close, Governor," whispered Harran.
When S. Behrman's buggy was about one hundred yards distant from
the irrigating ditch, Magnus sprang out upon the road, leaving
his revolvers behind him. He beckoned Garnett and Gethings to
follow, and the three ranchers, who, with the exception of
Broderson, were the oldest men present, advanced, without arms,
to meet the marshal.
Magnus cried aloud:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catherine de Medici by Honore de Balzac: chateau facing the courtyard; and it was lighted by two windows to
right and two to left of the tower in which the famous staircase winds
up. The young captain went to the door of the royal chamber, which
opened upon this vast hall, and told one of the two pages on duty to
inform Madame Dayelles, the queen's bedchamber woman, that the furrier
was in the hall with her surcoat.
On a sign from Pardaillan Christophe placed himself near an officer,
who was seated on a stool at the corner of a fireplace as large as his
father's whole shop, which was at the end of the great hall, opposite
to a precisely similar fireplace at the other end. While talking to
this officer, a lieutenant, he contrived to interest him with an
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