| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: never forget that you have been shamefully defrauded. So as
there's nobody looking, you had better give your Uncle Ned a
kiss. There, you rogue,' resumed Mr Bloomfield, when the ceremony
had been daintily performed, 'this very pretty young lady is
yours, and a vast deal more than you deserve. But now, let us get
back to the houseboat, get up steam on the launch, and away back
to town.'
'That's the thing!' cried Gideon; 'and tomorrow there will be no
houseboat, and no Jimson, and no carrier's cart, and no piano;
and when Harker awakes on the ditchside, he may tell himself the
whole affair has been a dream.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: for the matter of that. Now, Tanner, it is thy turn."
"I know not," quoth Arthur, smiling, with his head on one side,
like a budding lass that is asked to dance, "I know not that I
can match our sweet friend's song; moreover, I do verily think
that I have caught a cold and have a certain tickling and huskiness
in the windpipe."
"Nay, sing up, friend," quoth Little John, who sat next to him,
patting him upon the shoulder. "Thou hast a fair, round, mellow voice;
let us have a touch of it."
"Nay, an ye will ha' a poor thing," said Arthur, "I will do my best.
Have ye ever heard of the wooing of Sir Keith, the stout young Cornish knight,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: after their father, went to school in England for a good accent and
enunciation, as he had done, went to college in America for the sake of
belonging in their own country, as he had done, and married as many
fortunes, and had as few divorces, as possible.
"Who was that girl on the bridge?" he now inquired as we reached the
steps of the post-office; and when I had told him again, because he had
asked me about Eliza La Heu at the time, "She's the real thing," he
commented. "Quite extraordinary, you know, her dignity, when poor old
awful Charley was messing everything--he's so used to mere money, you
know, that half the time he forgets people are not dollars, and you have
to kick him to remind him--yes, quite perfect dignity. Gad, it took a
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