| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland: over to the other side, examined carefully if perchance he
might discover, from change of position, discomfort in
squatting, or a trace of guilt in the face or eyes of any of
them, a clue to the guilty party. He "made faces" to try
to cause the guilty one to laugh. He gesticulated, grimaced,
did everything he could think of, but they looked blank and
unconcerned, or all laughed together, allowing no telltale look
to appear on their faces. His pantomimes sometimes
brought out the guilty one, but in case they did not, his last
resort was to risk a guess, and so he made his selection. If he
was right he took the boy to his side; if wrong, he stayed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: motioning to Willie to follow him returned to the Case
yard where Jeb was already coming toward the gate,
having noted the interest which his son was arousing
among the occupants of the car. Willie pulled at the
detective's sleeve. "Don't tell Paw about the reward,"
he begged; "he'll keep it all hisself."
Burton reassured the boy with a smile and a nod,
and then as he neared Jeb he asked him if a young
man had been at his place that morning asking for
food.
"Sure," replied Jeb; "but he didn't 'mount to nothin'.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: make her friend feel strong; which was nothing less than the
prospect of being able to announce the climax of sundry private
dreams. The associate of the aristocracy had personal
calculations--matter for brooding and dreaming, even for peeping
out not quite hopelessly from behind the window-curtains of lonely
lodgings. If she did the flowers for the bachelors, in short,
didn't she expect that to have consequences very different from
such an outlook at Cocker's as she had pronounced wholly desperate?
There seemed in very truth something auspicious in the mixture of
bachelors and flowers, though, when looked hard in the eye, Mrs.
Jordan was not quite prepared to say she had expected a positive
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