| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: inquiries had shown him to be a Waukesha lawyer, no new facts
concerning the Elwell suit were elicited. He appeared to have
had no direct concern in it, but to have been conversant with the
facts merely as an acquaintance, and possible intermediary; and
he declared himself unable to divine with what object Boyne
intended to seek his assistance.
This negative information, sole fruit of the first fortnight's
feverish search, was not increased by a jot during the slow weeks
that followed. Mary knew that the investigations were still
being carried on, but she had a vague sense of their gradually
slackening, as the actual march of time seemed to slacken. It
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country,
a Voyage to plant the first colony in the Northerne Parts
of Virginia; doe, by these Presents, solemnly and mutually
in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and
combine ourselves together into a civill Body Politick,
for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance
of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof do enact,
constitute, and frame, such just and equall Laws, Ordinances,
Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time,
as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the
Generall Good of the Colonie; unto which we promise
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: defiance of tears, caresses, and protestations.
In pursuance of these sage principles, I proceeded
to form my schemes; and while I was yet in the
first bloom of youth, was taken out at an assembly
by Mr. Frisk. I am afraid my cheeks glowed, and
my eyes sparkled; for I observed the looks of all
my superintendants fixed anxiously upon me; and
I was next day cautioned against him from all hands,
as a man of the most dangerous and formidable kind,
who had writ verses to one lady, and then forsaken
her only because she could not read them, and had
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