| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: was patently fallacious; and for that matter a most
unsympathetic urchin, raised apparently on gingerbread. He
was bent on his own pleasure, nothing else; and Kelmar
followed him to his ruin, with the same shrewd smirk. If the
boy said there was "a hole there in the hill" - a hole, pure
and simple, neither more nor less - Kelmar and his Jew girls
would follow him a hundred yards to look complacently down
that hole. For two hours we looked for houses; and for two
hours they followed us, smelling trees, picking flowers,
foisting false botany on the unwary. Had we taken five, with
that vile lad to head them off on idle divagations, for five
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: get up a petition--that's what I'm going----"
Alderman Mooney closed the furnace door with a bang that drowned
the rest of the threat. He turned the draft in a pipe overhead
and brushed his sooty palms briskly together like one who would
put an end to a profitless conversation.
"She's bought the house," he said mildly, "and paid for it.
And it's hers. She's got a right to live in this neighborhood as
long as she acts respectable."
The Very Young Husband laughed.
"She won't last! They never do."
Alderman Mooney had taken his pipe out of his mouth and was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: might intercept it? How can you imply anything so base?" I
indignantly demanded
"It's not I--it's Mr. Pudney!" cried Mrs. Saltram with a flush.
"It's his own idea."
"Then why couldn't he send the letter to you to be delivered?"
Mrs. Saltram's embarrassment increased; she gave me another hard
look. "You must make that out for yourself."
I made it out quickly enough. "It's a denunciation?"
"A real lady doesn't betray her husband!" this virtuous woman
exclaimed.
I burst out laughing, and I fear my laugh may have had an effect of
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