| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: earned by his piracies, and so risk losing life and money both.
However that might be, the story was that Captain Brand and his
gunner, and Captain Malyoe of the Adventure and the sailing
master of the Adventure all went ashore together with a chest of
money (no one of them choosing to trust the other three in so
nice an affair), and buried the treasure somewhere on the beach
of Port Royal Harbor. The story then has it that they fell
a-quarreling about a future division or the money, and that, as a
wind-up to the affair, Captain Malyoe shot Captain Brand through
the head, while the sailing master of the Adventure served the
gunner of the Royal Sovereign after the same fashion through the
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: write my article some time to-night."
Blix fixed him with a swift glance of genuine concern. "Don't
play to-night, Condy," she said, with a sudden gravity.
"Fat lot I can play! What money have I got to play with?"
"You might get some somewheres. But, anyhow, promise me you won't
play."
"Well, of course I'll promise. How can I, if I haven't any money?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: sound as he came nearer and nearer. The way they barked and snapped out
there in the darkness was as wild a thing to hear as any boy could have
wished for. It began to be a little too much for me. I kept up a bright
fire, and, though not exactly afraid, I had a perch picked out in the
nearest tree. Suddenly the coyotes became silent. Then a low, continuous
growling, a snapping of twigs, and the unmistakable drag of a heavy body
over the ground made my hair stand on end. Gripping my rifle, I listened.
I heard the crunch of teeth on bones, then more sounds of something being
dragged down the hollow. The coyotes began to bark again, but now far back
in the forest.
Some beast had frightened them. What was it? I did not know whether a bear
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