| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the wood to the south of town. If we do meet anyone
to-night we'll stop them and inquire the way to Oakdale
--that'll throw them off the track."
The others acquiesced in his suggestion; but there
were queries about food to be answered. It seemed that
all were hungry and that the bear was ravenous.
"What does he eat?" Bridge asked of Giova.
"Mos' anything," replied the girl. "He like garbage
fine. Often I take him into towns late, ver' late at night
an' he eat swill. I do that to-night. Beppo, he got to be
fed or he eat Giova. I go feed Beppo, you go get food
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: said McWilliams promptly.
"Who is he?" the girl whispered.
"That's what we're going to find out pretty soon," returned
Bannister grimly. "Chances are it's me he is trying to gather.
Now, I'm going to make a break for that cottonwood. When I go,
you better run up a white handkerchief and move back from the
firing-line. Turn Buck loose when you leave. He'll stay around
and come when I whistle."
He made a run for it, zigzagging through the sage-brush so
swiftly as to offer the least certain mark possible for a
sharpshooter. Yet twice the rifle spoke before he reached the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: uninvested capital produced in him; so fine an intelligence
as Bellegarde's ought to be dedicated to high uses.
The highest uses known to Newman's experience were certain
transcendent sagacities in the handling of railway stock.
And then his zeal was quickened by his personal kindness
for Valentin; he had a sort of pity for him which he was well aware
he never could have made the Comte de Bellegarde understand.
He never lost a sense of its being pitiable that Valentin
should think it a large life to revolve in varnished boots
between the Rue d'Anjou and the Rue de l'Universite, taking
the Boulevard des Italiens on the way, when over there
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