| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: by running back into the house agin. She is out
in a minute with a clipping from a newspaper and
hands it over to Doctor Kirby, as proud as a kid
with copper-toed boots. The doctor reads it all
the way through, and then he hands it back without
saying a word. The old lady goes away to fiddle
around about the housework purty soon and the
old man looks at the doctor and says:
"Well, you see, don't you?"
"Yes," says the doctor, very gentle.
"I wouldn't have HER know for the world," says
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: keep exclusively to their own boat against all hazards.
The unfortunate circumstance of the SMEATON and her boat
having drifted was, for a considerable time, only known to the
writer and to the landing-master, who removed to the farther
point of the rock, where he kept his eye steadily upon the
progress of the vessel. While the artificers were at work,
chiefly in sitting or kneeling postures, excavating the rock,
or boring with the jumpers, and while their numerous hammers,
with the sound of the smith's anvil, continued, the situation
of things did not appear so awful. In this state of suspense,
with almost certain destruction at hand, the water began to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: changed his way of life, and was called to the bar when past
thirty. A Commission of Enquiry into the state of the poor in
Dorsetshire gave him an opportunity of proving his true talents;
and he was appointed a Poor Law Inspector, first at Worcester, next
at Manchester, where he had to deal with the potato famine and the
Irish immigration of the 'forties, and finally in London, where he
again distinguished himself during an epidemic of cholera. He was
then advanced to the Permanent Secretaryship of Her Majesty's
Office of Works and Public Buildings; a position which he filled
with perfect competence, but with an extreme of modesty; and on his
retirement, in 1868, he was made a Companion of the Bath. While
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