| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: on deck, on either hand of it. She had been painted white, with
tropical economy, outside and in; and we found, later on, that
the stanchions of the rail, hoops of the scuttle but, etc., were
picked out with green. At that time, however, when we first
stepped aboard, all was hidden under the droppings of
innumerable sea-birds.
The birds themselves gyrated and screamed meanwhile among
the rigging; and when we looked into the galley, their outrush
drove us back. Savage-looking fowl they were, savagely
beaked, and some of the black ones great as eagles. Half-
buried in the slush, we were aware of a litter of kegs in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: or two of the gloomy and stolid women who hurried past in
their wooden sabots clicked their fingers to it, she
could not help smiling gayly and bidding them good-day.
The fog was stifling. As she waited she gave a tired
gasp. Colette ran to her. "Madame is going to be ill!"
"No, no! Don't frighten monsieur."
George came out of the gate at the moment.
"Going to faint again, Lisa?" he said, with an annoyed
glance around the street. "Your attacks do choose the
most malapropos times----"
"Oh, dear no, George! I am quite well quite." She
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: the street, and everything would be all right. But hard on the
heels of her instinctive gladness trod the sober second thought.
Ten-thirty at best, and perhaps later! Would they wait that long,
or would they do their cowardly work as soon as night fell She
must contrive to delay them till the train drew in. She must play
for those two lives with all her woman's wit; must match the
outlaw's sinister cunning and fool him into delay. She knew he
would come if she sent for him. But how long could she keep him?
As long as he was amused at her agony, as long as his pleasure in
tormenting her was greater than his impatience to be at his
ruffianly work. Oh, if she ever needed all her power it would be
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