| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum: nails, she became very angry. Scraps wanted to
shake the woman, to make her behave, but Dorothy
talked to her in a gentle tone and told the
Quadling's wife she was a Princess of Oz and a
friend of Ozma and that when she got back to the
Emerald City she would send them a lot of things
to repay them for the raft, including a new
clothesline. This promise pleased the woman and
she soon became more pleasant, saying they could
stay the night at her house and begin their voyage
on the river next morning.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: less the hope of success, had not yet dawned on the Samoan mind.
He returned (November 1889) to a changed world. The Tupua party
was reduced to sue for peace, Brandeis was withdrawn, Tamasese was
dying obscurely of a broken heart; the German flag no longer waved
over the capital; and over all the islands one figure stood
supreme. During Laupepa's absence this man had succeeded him in
all his honours and titles, in tenfold more than all his power and
popularity. He was the idol of the whole nation but the rump of
the Tamaseses, and of these he was already the secret admiration.
In his position there was but one weak point, - that he had even
been tacitly excluded by the Germans. Becker, indeed, once
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: "Oh, don't say such dreadful things!" said Winterbourne--"just
at the last!"
"The last!" cried the young girl; "I call it the first. I have half
a mind to leave you here and go straight back to the hotel alone."
And for the next ten minutes she did nothing but call him horrid.
Poor Winterbourne was fairly bewildered; no young lady had as yet done
him the honor to be so agitated by the announcement of his movements.
His companion, after this, ceased to pay any attention to the
curiosities of Chillon or the beauties of the lake; she opened fire
upon the mysterious charmer in Geneva whom she appeared to have
instantly taken it for granted that he was hurrying back to see.
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