| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: faithful and trusty horse Brassey was ornamented with bows and
streamers of various colours. The masons also provided
themselves with new aprons, and in this manner the cart was
attended in its progress to the ship. When the cart came
opposite the Trinity House of Leith, the officer of that
corporation made his appearance dressed in his uniform, with
his staff of office; and when it reached the harbour, the
shipping in the different tiers where the SMEATON lay hoisted
their colours, manifesting by these trifling ceremonies the
interest with which the progress of this work was regarded by
the public, as ultimately tending to afford safety and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: and an eviction all over the place.
"The tenants began to pack up feather beds, rub-
ber boots, strings of garlic, hot-water bags, porta-
ble canoes and scuttles of coal to take along for the
sake of comfort. The sidewalk looked like a Russian
camp in Oyama's line of mareb. There was waiting
and lamenting up and down stairs from Danny Geog-
hegan's flat on the top floor to the apartments of
Missis Goldsteinupski on the first.
"'For why," says Danny, coming down and raging
in his blue yarn socks to the janitor, 'should I be
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: "You know you left Saint Jo a year before I did."
"I'm selling shares in a copper mine," said Ker-
nan. "I may establish an office here. Well, well!
and so old Barney is a New York detective. You
always had a turn that way. You were on the po-
lice in Saint Jo after I left there, weren't you?"
"Six months," said Woods. "And now there's one
more question, Johnny. I've followed your record
pretty close ever since you did that hotel job in Sara-
toga, and I never knew you to use your gun before.
Why did you kill Norcross?"
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