| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: apply it to the corner of her eyes. But my master
could not see that it was at all soiled.
The silence which prevailed for a few moments
was broken by the gentleman's saying, "As your
'July' was such a very good girl, and had served
you so faithfully before she lost her health, don't
you think it would have been better to have eman-
cipated her?"
"No, indeed I do not!" scornfully exclaimed
the lady, as she impatiently crammed the fine
handkerchief into a little work-bag. "I have no
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: their big glass eyes and their masked mouths suggesting some fabled,
unearthly race, a family of replete and bilious ogres; so that as they
flew honking by us I called out to John:--
"Behold the yellow rich!" and then remembered that his Hortense probably
sat among them.
The honks redoubled, and we turned to see that the drawbridge had no
thought of waiting for them. We also saw a bewildered curly white dog and
a young girl, who called despairingly to him as he disappeared beneath
the automobile. The engine of murder could not, as is usual, proceed upon
its way, honking, for the drawbridge was visibly swinging open to admit
the passage of the boat. When John and I had run back near enough to
become ourselves a part of the incident, the white dog lay still behind
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: And as he lies asleep lay on his breast
The dagger and this writing; when he awakes
Then he will know who held him in his power
And slew him not: this is the noblest vengeance
Which I can take.
MORANZONE
You will not slay him?
GUIDO
No.
MORANZONE
Ignoble son of a noble father,
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