| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: When, the next moment, Pemberton found himself alone with Mrs.
Moreen it was to hear her say "I see, I see" - stroking the
roundness of her chin and looking as if she were only hesitating
between a dozen easy remedies. If they didn't make their push Mr.
Moreen could at least disappear for several days. During his
absence his wife took up the subject again spontaneously, but her
contribution to it was merely that she had thought all the while
they were getting on so beautifully. Pemberton's reply to this
revelation was that unless they immediately put down something on
account he would leave them on the spot and for ever. He knew she
would wonder how he would get away, and for a moment expected her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: She tried again-even more peremptorily than before.
"Aw, open up!" she snapped. "Wot's de use bein' a clam! Youse
heard me, didn't youse? Where is he?"
Shluker leaned abruptly forward, and looked at her in a suddenly
perturbed way.
"is there anything wrong?" he asked in a tense, lowered voice.
"What makes you so anxious to know?"
Rhoda Gray laughed shortly.
"Nothin'!" she answered coolly. "I told youse once, didn't I? I
got a scare readin' dem papers - an' I ain't over it yet. Dat's
wot I want to know for, an' youse seem afraid to open up!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: level ground, and won over a number of cities. Pergamum came in of her
own accord. So did Teuthrania and Halisarna. These were under the
government of Eurysthenes and Procles,[11] the descendants of
Demaratus the Lacedaemonian, who in days of old had received this
territory as a gift from the Persian monarch in return for his share
in the campaign against Hellas. Gorgion and Gongylus, two brothers,
also gave in their adhesion; they were lords, the one of Gambreum and
Palae-Gambreum, the other of Myrina and Gryneum, four cities which,
like those above named, had originally been gifts from the king to an
earlier Gongylus--the sole Eretrian who "joined the Mede," and in
consequence was banished. Other cities which were too weak to resist,
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