| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo: "Yes, I'm well now and able to work again." There was no
enthusiasm in her tone, for Hasty's news had made her realise how
unwelcome the old life would be to her.
"Work! You does work all de time. My stars! de help you is to
Massa John."
"Do you think so? Do I help him?-- Do I?"
"Of course you does. You tells him things to do in Sunday-school
what the chillun like, an' you learns him to laugh and 'joy
himself, an' a lot of things what nobody else could a-learned
'im."
"You mustn't say 'learned him,' " Polly corrected; "you must say
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: CHAPTER XV
THE GREAT COUNCIL
None had seen or heard him come, and though doubtless he had but
crept round the rock and taken his place in the darkness, there
appeared to be something mysterious about this sudden appearance
of Zikali. So the Zulu nobles thought at any rate, for they
uttered a low "Ow!" of fear and wonder.
There he sat like a huge ape staring at the sky, for the
firelight shone on his deep and burning eyes. The moonlight
increased, but now and again it was broken by little clouds which
caused strange shadows to appear about the rock. Some of these
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: they set the slower pace. And under this milder toil, where his
companions nevertheless grew weary, Daylight recuperated and
rested up. At Forty Mile they laid over two days for the sake of
the dogs, and at Sixty Mile Daylight's team was left with the
trader. Unlike Daylight, after the terrible run from Selkirk to
Circle City, they had been unable to recuperate on the back
trail. So the four men pulled on from Sixty Mile with a fresh
team of dogs on Daylight's sled.
The following night they camped in the cluster of islands at the
mouth of the Stewart. Daylight talked town sites, and, though
the others laughed at him, he staked the whole maze of high,
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