| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ebb-Tide by Stevenson & Osbourne: 'Well!' drawled Huish, 'you're a plummy captain, ain't you?
You're a blooming captain! Don't you, set up any of your chat
to me, John Dyvis: I know you now, you ain't any more use
than a bloomin' dawl! Oh, you "don't know", don't you? Oh,
it "gets you", do it? Oh, I dessay! W'y, we en't you 'owling for
fresh tins every blessed day? 'Ow often 'ave I 'eard you send the
'ole bloomin' dinner off and tell the man to chuck it in the
swill tub? And breakfast? Oh, my crikey! breakfast for ten, and
you 'ollerin' for more! And now you "can't 'most tell"! Blow me,
if it ain't enough to make a man write an insultin' letter to
Gawd! You dror it mild, John Dyvis; don't 'andle me; I'm
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: every body was concerned.--Colonel Brandon rose up and went
to them without knowing what he did.--Mrs. Jennings,
with a very intelligent "Ah! poor dear," immediately gave
her her salts; and Sir John felt so desperately enraged
against the author of this nervous distress, that he
instantly changed his seat to one close by Lucy Steele,
and gave her, in a whisper, a brief account of the whole
shocking affair.
In a few minutes, however, Marianne was recovered
enough to put an end to the bustle, and sit down among
the rest; though her spirits retained the impression
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: breeze will drive away the flies and mosquitoes, and an abundance
of dry firewood within easy reach. Yes, and a third thing must not
be forgotten; for, says my lady Greygown:
"I shouldn't feel at home in camp unless I could sit in the door of
the tent and look out across flowing water."
All these conditions are met in our favourite camping place below
the first fall in the Grande Decharge. A rocky point juts out into
the rivet and makes a fine landing for the canoes. There is a
dismantled fishing-cabin a few rods back in the woods, from which
we can borrow boards for a table and chairs. A group of cedars on
the lower edge of the point opens just wide enough to receive and
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