| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: me civilly enough, but with something of a sneering manner
underneath - and touching his cap, 'My lady,' said he, 'if
that is what you are, the boat is ready.'
My reception on board the NEMOROSA (for so the yacht was
named) partook of the same mingled nature. We were scarcely
within hail of that great and elegant fabric, where she lay
rolling gunwale under and churning the blue sea to snow,
before the bulwarks were lined with the heads of a great
crowd of seamen, black, white, and yellow; and these and the
few who manned the boat began exchanging shouts in some
LINGUA FRANCA incomprehensible to me. All eyes were directed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: "Nonsense!" cried D'Artagnan, "they'll suppose us to be
stronger than themselves, as we're in pursuit; they'll be
afraid and will disperse."
"Certainly," remarked Porthos.
"Ah! do you see?" cried the lieutenant.
"The lights again! this time I, too, saw them," said
Porthos.
"On! on! forward! forward!" cried D'Artagnan, in his
stentorian voice; "we shall laugh over all this in five
minutes."
And they darted on anew. The horses, excited by pain and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: Pa wound it up for Uncle Jim to show him how it went,
And when those two got through with it the runnin' gear was bent,
An' now it doesn't go at all. I mustn't grumble though,
'Cause while it was in shape to run my pa enjoyed it so.
I've got my blocks as good as new, my mitts are perfect yet;
Although the snow is on the ground I haven't got em wet.
I've taken care of everything that Santa brought to me,
Except the toys that run about when wound up with a key.
But next year you can bet I won't make any such mistake;
I'm going to ask for toys an' things that my pa cannot break.
The Real Successes
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