| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: ``T-t-t-t-t-t-t-ta-tr----'' began Tay Tay Mohler.
``Say it! Say it!'' interrupted Daddy.
``Ta-ta-ta-tr-trimmed them wa-wa-wa-wa-with
their own b-b-b-b-b-ba-ba-ball,'' finished Tay.
OLD WELL WELL
He bought a ticket at the 25-cent window, and
edging his huge bulk through the turnstile, laboriously
followed the noisy crowd toward the bleachers.
I could not have been mistaken. He was Old
Well-Well, famous from Boston to Baltimore as
the greatest baseball fan in the East. His singular
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: suppressed with difficulty.
"No--no marriage," replied Mareschal, "there's my hand and glove
on't."
Sir Frederick Langley took his hand, and as he wrung it hard,
said in a lower whisper, "Mareschal, you shall answer this," and
then flung his hand from him.
"That I will readily do," said Mareschal, "for never word escaped
my lips that my hand was not ready to guarantee.- So, speak up,
my pretty cousin, and tell me if it be your free will and
unbiassed resolution to accept of this gallant knight for your
lord and husband; for if you have the tenth part of a scruple
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: passed were talking cheerfully together and the rare
sledges and motors had comparatively good roads, the
streets being certainly better swept and cleaned than they
have been since the last winter of the Russian Empire.
SMOLNI
Early in the morning I got tea, and a bread card on which I
was given a very small allowance of brown bread, noticeably
better in quality than the compound of clay and straw which
made me ill in Moscow last summer. Then I went to find
Litvinov, and set out with him to walk to the Smolni
institute, once a school for the daughters of the aristocracy,
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