| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: move out?"
"We can load the lorries tonight," replied Capell, "and
march about one o'clock tomorrow morning."
"Good," said the general, "keep me advised," and returning
the others' salutes he departed.
As Tarzan leaped for the vines he realized that the lion was
close upon him and that his life depended upon the strength
of the creepers clinging to the city walls; but to his intense
relief he found the stems as large around as a man's arm, and
the tendrils which had fastened themselves to the wall so
firmly fixed, that his weight upon the stem appeared to have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Philosophy 4 by Owen Wister: Walked in last evening and wanted dinner. Did he tell you what he ate?
Guess he left out what he drank. Yes, he's demure."
You might suppose that upon their landlord's safe and sober return
fifteen minutes late, instead of on the expected noon of Thursday or
Friday, their landlady would show signs of pleasure; but Mrs. Diggs from
the porch threw an uncordial eye at the three arriving in the buggy.
Here were two more like Johnnie of last night. She knew them by the
clothes they wore and by the confidential tones of her husband's voice
as he chatted to them. He had been old enough to know better for twenty
years. But for twenty years he had taken the same extreme joy in the
company of Johnnies, and they were bad for his health. Her final proof
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: "No, the sidelight is too low," Joan answered. "Besides, they've
got the sweeps out. Don't you hear them? They wouldn't be
sweeping a big vessel like the Martha."
"Besides, the Martha has a gasoline engine--twenty-five horse-
power," Tudor added.
"Just the sort of a craft for us," Joan said wistfully to Sheldon.
"I really must see if I can't get a schooner with an engine. I
might get a second-hand engine put in."
"That would mean the additional expense of an engineer's wages," he
objected.
"But it would pay for itself by quicker passages," she argued; "and
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