| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: ill, and you won't compromise? There's something very fishy about
that.'
'What do you mean?' cried Morris hoarsely.
'I only say it's fishy,' returned Michael, 'that is, pertaining
to the finny tribe.'
'Do you mean to insinuate anything?' cried Morris stormily,
trying the high hand.
'Insinuate?' repeated Michael. 'O, don't let's begin to use
awkward expressions! Let us drown our differences in a bottle,
like two affable kinsmen. The Two Affable Kinsmen, sometimes
attributed to Shakespeare,' he added.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: have eaten those we will all follow the seal on the floe."
"What do YOU do?" said the sorcerer in the same sort of voice as
he used to Kadlu, richest of the Tununirmiut.
Kadlu looked at the girl from the North, and said quietly,
"WE build a house." He pointed to the north-west side of Kadlu's
house, for that is the side on which the married son or daughter
always lives.
The girl turned her hands palm upward, with a little despairing
shake of her head. She was a foreigner, picked up starving,
and could bring nothing to the housekeeping.
Amoraq jumped from the bench where she sat, and began to sweep
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: windows, which looked to the court, were calico curtains edged with a
band of some pink material; between the windows and beneath a tall
mirror was a pier-table topped with marble, on which stood a Sevres
vase in which she put her nosegays; opposite the chimney was a little
bureau-desk of charming marquetry. The bed, of chintz, with chintz
curtains lined with pink, was one of those duchess beds so common in
the eighteenth century, which had a tuft of carved feathers at the top
of each of the four posts, which were fluted on the sides. An old
clock, inclosed in a sort of monument made of tortoise-shell inlaid
with arabesques of ivory, decorated the mantelpiece, the marble shelf
of which, with the candlesticks and the mirror in a frame painted in
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