| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: plantings of rubber, and the like. For the use of the people of
Juja here are raised a great variety and abundance of vegetables,
fruits, and grains.
Juja House, as has been said, stands back a hundred feet from a
bend in the bluffs that permits a view straight up the river
valley. It is surrounded by gardens and trees, and occupies all
one end of the enclosed rectangle. Farther down and perched on
the edge of a bluff, are several pretty little bungalows for the
accommodation of the superintendent and his family, for the
bachelors' mess, for the farm offices and dispensary, and for the
dairy room, the ice-plant and the post-office and telegraph
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: more than comfort, and its adornments plainly indicated
a woman's discerning taste. An open door beyond
revealed the blackness of an adjoining room's interior.
The boy clutched both of Father Rogan's hands. "I'm
so glad you came," he said; "but why did you come in
the night? Did sister send you?"
"Off wid ye! Am I to be sint about, at me age, as
was Terence McShane, of Ballymahone? I come on me
own r-r-responsibility."
Lorison had also advanced to the boy's bedside. He
was fond of children; and the wee fellow, laving himself
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: and usefulness, and goes about the world the phantom of itself,
without hope, or joy, or any consolation. These flowers seemed not
so much the token of love that survived death, as of something yet
more beautiful - of love that had lived a man's life out to an end
with him, and been faithful and companionable, and not weary of
loving, throughout all these years.
The morning cleared a little, and the sky was once more the old
stone-coloured vault over the sallow meadows and the russet woods, as
I set forth on a dog-cart from Wendover to Tring. The road lay for a
good distance along the side of the hills, with the great plain below
on one hand, and the beech-woods above on the other. The fields were
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