| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: laws by that. If I don't attend Northam church, I pay my month's
shilling for the use of the poor, as the act directs; and beyond
that, neither you nor any man dare demand of me."
"Dare! act directs! You rascally lawyer, you! and whence does an
ostler like you get your shilling to pay withal? Answer me." The
examinate found it so difficult to answer the question, that he
suddenly became afflicted with deafness.
"Do you hear?" roared Amyas, catching at him with his lion's paw.
"Yes, missus; anon, anon, missus!" quoth he to an imaginary
landlady inside, and twisting under Amyas's hand like an eel,
vanished into the house, while Frank got the hot-headed youth away.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: (they were believed to have lost in their long exile all national quality,
besides having had, as their name implied, some French strain
in their origin), who asked no favors and desired no attention.
In the early years of her residence she had made an attempt
to see them, but this had been successful only as regards
the little one, as Mrs. Prest called the niece; though in reality
as I afterward learned she was considerably the bigger of the two.
She had heard Miss Bordereau was ill and had a suspicion that she
was in want; and she had gone to the house to offer assistance,
so that if there were suffering (and American suffering), she
should at least not have it on her conscience. The "little one"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: his direction, Zoie gave her entire attention to Aggie. "What is
it?" she asked eagerly.
"There must be OTHER babies' Homes," said Aggie, and she glanced
at Jimmy from her superior height.
"They aren't open all night like corner drug stores," growled
Jimmy.
"Well, they ought to be," decided Zoie.
"And surely," argued Aggie, "in an extraordinary case--like----"
"This was an 'extraordinary case,' " declared Jimmy, "and you saw
what happened this time, and the Superintendent is a friend of
mine--at least he WAS a friend of mine." And with that Jimmy sat
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