| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: to-morrow night. How should I look with a black eye? And going
round with the carriage with a split lip?"
"If you don't want your face sp'iled, Charlie, why don't you keep
your mouth shut?" said the person in gaiters.
"Exactly," said Mr. Hoopdriver, driving it home with great
fierceness. "Why don't you shut your ugly mouth?"
"It's as much as my situation's worth," protested Charlie.
"You should have thought of that before," said Hoopdriver.
"There's no occasion to be so thunderin' 'ot about it. I only
meant the thing joking," said Charlie. "AS one gentleman to
another, I'm very sorry if the gentleman's annoyed--"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: two o'clock."
The servant came back. The caller said she would only keep her a moment:
it was necessary she should see her.
The woman rose from her desk. "Tell the boy to wait. Ask the lady to come
in."
A young woman in a silk dress, with a cloak reaching to her feet, entered.
She was tall and slight, with fair hair.
"I knew you would not mind. I wished to see you so!"
The woman offered her a seat by the fire. "May I loosen your cloak?--the
room is warm."
"I wanted so to come and see you. You are the only person in the world who
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: Forswears my money, says they owe me none:
They know my state too mean to bear out law,
And here in London, where I oft have been,
And have done good to many a wretched man,
I am now most wretched here, despised my self.
In vain it is, more of their hearts to try;
Be patient, therefore, lay thee down and die.
[He lies down.]
[Enter good man Seely, and his wife Joan.]
SEELY.
Come, Joan, come; let's see what he'll do for us
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