| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: centerpeice. She brought her own lunch and Elaine's, refusing to
allow her to eat the regular Milatary rations of bacon and boiled
potatoes, etcetera, and not ofering a thing to us, although having
brought chicken sandwitches, cake and fruit.
I shall now put down the events of the day, as although the Manual
says nothing of keeping a record, I am sure it is always done. Have
I not read, again and again, of the Captain's log, which is not
wood, as it sounds, but is a journal or Dairy?
This morning the man at the tent store called up and asked where to
send the tent. I then called a meeting in my Chamber, only to meet
with bitter disapointment, as one Parent after another had refused
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: though, as I soon discovered, there was nothing to be
gained by trying to keep the worst from Juag--he knew
it quite as well as I. He had always known, from the
legends of his people, the dangers of the open sea
beyond the sight of land. The compass, since he had
learned its uses from me, had been all that he had to
buoy his hope of eventual salvation from the watery
deep. He had seen how it had guided me across the
water to the very coast that I desired to reach, and so
he had implicit confidence in it. Now that it was gone,
his confidence had departed, also.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: on his big knees were coarse in shape, and roughened,
and ill-kept.
"I couldn't have asked anything better than your dropping in,
"he repeated now, speaking with a drag, as of caution,
on his words. "Witnesses or no witnesses, I'm anxious
to have you understand that I realize what I owe to you."
"I only wish it were a great deal more than it is,"
replied the other, with a frank smile.
"Oh, it'll mount up to considerable, as it stands,"
said Thorpe.
He could hear that there was a kind of reservation
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