| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: That she may quickly come.--
[BERTRAM gives a ring to Lafeu.]
By my old beard,
And every hair that's on 't, Helen, that's dead,
Was a sweet creature: such a ring as this,
The last that e'er I took her leave at court,
I saw upon her finger.
BERTRAM.
Hers it was not.
KING.
Now, pray you, let me see it; for mine eye,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke: to the weeds. As it settled on the water, there was a flash of gold
from the shadow beneath the logs, and a quick turn of the wrist made
the tiny hook fast in the fish. He fought wildly to get back to the
shelter of his logs, but the four ounce rod had spring enough in it
to hold him firmly away from that dangerous retreat. Then he
splurged up and down the open water, and made fierce dashes among
the grassy shallows, and seemed about to escape a dozen times. But
at last his force was played out; he came slowly towards the boat,
turning on his side, and I netted him in my hat.
"Bully for us;" said the boy, "we got him! What a dandy!"
It was indeed one of the handsomest fish that I have ever taken on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: melons were eaten on such and such a date." If there was a guest
present, then it reads, "Such and such a person assisted."
The late judge of Mirgorod always gazed at Ivan Ivanovitch's house
with pleasure. The little house is very pretty. It pleases me because
sheds and other little additions are built on to it on all sides; so
that, looking at it from a distance, only roofs are visible, rising
one above another, and greatly resembling a plate full of pancakes,
or, better still, fungi growing on the trunk of a tree. Moreover, the
roof is all overgrown with weeds: a willow, an oak, and two
apple-trees lean their spreading branches against it. Through the
trees peep little windows with carved and white-washed shutters, which
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