| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: three hundred yards the shot had failed to carry the line over the
vessels.
"There's Mr. Bradford," said Carroll, waving her hand. "I wish he'd
come and tell us something about it."
The banjo-playing village Brummell saw the signal and came, his face
grave.
"Couldn't they get the lifeboats out to them?" asked Carroll as he
approached.
"You see that one," said Bradford, pointing. "Well, the other's in
kindling wood farther up the beach."
"Anybody drowned?" asked Mina quickly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving: foolscap much scribbled and blotted in several fruitless attempts
to make a copy of verses in honor of the heiress of Van Tassel.
These magic books and the poetic scrawl were forthwith consigned
to the flames by Hans Van Ripper; who, from that time forward,
determined to send his children no more to school; observing that
he never knew any good come of this same reading and writing.
Whatever money the schoolmaster possessed, and he had received
his quarter's pay but a day or two before, he must have had about
his person at the time of his disappearance.
The mysterious event caused much speculation at the church
on the following Sunday. Knots of gazers and gossips were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: " 'Then why does he come here?' demanded Maxime.
" 'For a queer reason,' returned the fair Antonia. 'In the first
place, although he is sixty-nine, he has a fancy; and because he is
sixty-nine, he is as methodical as a clock face. Every day at five
o'clock the old gentleman goes to dine with /her/ in the Rue de la
Victoire. (I am sorry for her.) Then at six o'clock, he comes here,
reads steadily at the papers for four hours, and goes back at ten
o'clock. Daddy Croizeau says that he knows M. Denisart's motives, and
approves his conduct; and in his place, he would do the same. So I
know exactly what to expect. If ever I am Mme. Croizeau, I shall have
four hours to myself between six and ten o'clock.'
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