| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: suckers in it, such as the Lord intended to be caught--fresh guys who
know it all, sports with a little coin and the nerve to play another
man's game, street crowds out for the fun of dropping a dollar or two
and village smarties who know just where the little pea is? No, sir,'
says I. 'What the grafters live on here is widows and orphans, and
foreigners who save up a bag of money and hand it out over the first
counter they see with an iron railing to it, and factory girls and
little shopkeepers that never leave the block they do business on.
That's what they call suckers here. They're nothing but canned
sardines, and all the bait you need to catch 'em is a pocketknife and
a soda cracker.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Where There's A Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "I never did!" he said solemnly.
There had been a queer sound all along, but now I made it out.
Some one else was in the room, sniveling and crying.
"My poor lamb!" it whimpered. And I knew it was Mrs. Hutchins,
Miss Patty's old nurse.
"Perhaps," said Miss Patty, "you also deny that you were in Ohio
the day before yesterday."
"I was in Ohio, but I positively assert--"
"I'll send for the police, that's what I'll do!" Mrs. Hutchins
said, with a burst of rage, and her chair creaked. "How can I
ever tell your father?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: appear to her! Perhaps the neighbours may hear her sobbing
to herself in the dark, with the fire burnt out for want of
fuel, and the candle still unlit upon the table.
And it is for this that they live, these quasi-mothers -
mothers in everything but the travail and the thanks. It is
for this that they have remained virtuous in youth, living
the dull life of a household servant. It is for this that
they refused the old sweetheart, and have no fireside or
offspring of their own.
I believe in a better state of things, that there will be no
more nurses, and that every mother will nurse her own
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