| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: and led the way to the pier.
There they had difficulty in getting close enough to see; but
Bradford, preceding the two women, succeeded by patience and
diplomacy in forcing a way. The SPRITE was lying close under the
pier, the top of her pilot-house just about level with the feet of
the people watching her. She rose and fell with the restless
waters. Fat rope-yarn bumpers interposed between her sides and the
piling. The pilot-house was empty, but Harvey, the negro engineer,
leaned, elbows crossed against the sill of his little square door,
smoking his pipe.
"I wouldn't go out there for a million dollars!" cried a man
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: "I am personally very grateful to him," said Mrs. Henry.
And indeed so was the whole company. To be afflicted with Dr.
MacBride for one night instead of six was a great liberation.
But the Virginian never saw his sweetheart alone again; while she
was at the Sunk Creek Ranch, his duties called him away so much
that there was no chance for him. Worse still, that habit of
birds of a feather brought about a separation more considerable.
She arranged to go East with the Ogdens. It was so good an
opportunity to travel with friends, instead of making the journey
alone!
Molly's term of ministration at the schoolhouse had so pleased
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chance by Joseph Conrad: had that aspect breathing a readiness to assume any responsibility
under Heaven. This is the sort of courage which ripens late in life
and of course Mrs. Fyne was of mature years for all her unwrinkled
face.
She looked round the room, told me positively that I was very
comfortable there; to which I assented, humbly, acknowledging my
undeserved good fortune.
"Why undeserved?" she wanted to know.
"I engaged these rooms by letter without asking any questions. It
might have been an abominable hole," I explained to her. "I always
do things like that. I don't like to be bothered. This is no great
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