| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: was nearly in the centre of the heath. The fuelhouse
was as roomy as a barn, and was a most desirable place
for such a purpose. The lads who formed the company
of players lived at different scattered points around,
and by meeting in this spot the distances to be traversed
by all the comers would be about equally proportioned.
For mummers and mumming Eustacia had the greatest contempt.
The mummers themselves were not afflicted with any such
feeling for their art, though at the same time they
were not enthusiastic. A traditional pastime is to be
distinguished from a mere revival in no more striking
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: Follows the mouse, and all is open field.
SEA DREAMS.
SEA DREAMS.
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A city clerk, but gently born and bred;
His wife, an unknown artist's orphan child--
One babe was theirs, a Margaret, three years old:
They, thinking that her clear germander eye
Droopt in the giant-factoried city-gloom,
Came, with a month's leave given them, to the sea:
For which his gains were dock'd, however small:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: scant respect to her revolver, for behind the muzzle of that revolver
was the reputation of the White Moll. They would take her at face
value - as one who not only knew how to use that revolver, but as
one who would not hesitate an instant to do so.
From the room she heard Skeeny whistle low under his breath, as
though in sudden and amazed delight - and then she was standing full
in the open doorway, and her revolver in her outflung, gloved hand
covered the two men at the table.
There was a startled cry from Skeeny, a scintillating flash of light
as a magnificent string of diamonds fell from his hand to the table.
But Danglar did not move or speak; only his lips twitched, and a
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