| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: up there. You bring the little ladder and stand at the bottom."
"There's one would be sorry if you were to fall," said the Hottentot maid,
leering at Bonaparte's pipe, that lay on the table.
"Hold your tongue, jade," said her mistress, trying to conceal a pleased
smile, "and go and fetch the ladder."
There was a never-used trap-door at one end of the sitting room: this the
Hottentot maid pushed open, and setting the ladder against it, the Boer-
woman with some danger and difficulty climbed into the loft. Then the
Hottentot maid took the ladder away, as her husband was mending the wagon-
house, and needed it; but the trap-door was left open.
For a little while Tant Sannie poked about among the empty bottles and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic: "You shall remain here, my child, and I will send Michael down to
Colvin Court to inquire into the situation of your mother. He
must be impartial for he knows nothing about the case."
"Thank you, ma'am," said Katy, with a promptness which assured
Grace, if not her mother, that the little girl was honest.
Mrs. Gordon rang the bell, and when Michael answered the summons,
she attended him to the street door, where she instructed him to
call upon Mrs. Redburn, and also to inquire of the grocer at the
corner, and of her neighbors, what sort of a person she was. The
lady returned to the sitting-room when he had gone, and asked
Katy a great many questions about herself and her mother, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: This sound disturbed an old woman who was sleeping in a chair beside me.
She was a hired nurse, the wife of one of the turnkeys,
and her countenance expressed all those bad qualities
which often characterize that class. The lines of her face
were hard and rude, like that of persons accustomed to see without
sympathizing in sights of misery. Her tone expressed her
entire indifference; she addressed me in English, and the voice
struck me as one that I had heard during my sufferings.
"Are you better now, sir?" said she.
I replied in the same language, with a feeble voice, "I believe I am;
but if it be all true, if indeed I did not dream, I am sorry that
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