| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: for me then, and a chum I had with me had a no-
tion of getting a couple quid out of him by writ-
ing a lot of silly nonsense in a letter. That lark did
not come off, though. We had to clear out--and
none too soon. But this time I've a chum waiting
for me in London, and besides . . ."
Bessie Carvil was breathing quickly.
"What if I tried a knock at the door?" he sug-
gested.
"Try," she said.
Captain Hagberd's gate squeaked, and the shad-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: day before, and which the attendants had thrown over the garden
wall and into the river when they had dressed him in the fine
clothes the king gave him.
He spread his clothes out in the sun until they were dry, and
then he put them on and went back into the town again.
"Well," said the king, that morning, to his chief councillor,
"what do you think now? Am I not greater than Fate? Did I not
make the beggar rich? And shall I not paint my father's words out
from the wall, and put my own there instead?"
"I do not know," said the councillor, shaking his head. "Let us
first see what has become of the beggar."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: Gods are with the lad.'
And when his eighteenth year was past, Aithra led him up
again to the temple, and said, 'Theseus, lift the stone this
day, or never know who you are.' And Theseus went into the
thicket, and stood over the stone, and tugged at it; and it
moved. Then his spirit swelled within him, and he said, 'If
I break my heart in my body, it shall up.' And he tugged at
it once more, and lifted it, and rolled it over with a shout.
And when he looked beneath it, on the ground lay a sword of
bronze, with a hilt of glittering gold, and by it a pair of
golden sandals; and he caught them up, and burst through the
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