| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: "Sure she did," answered the office boy wisely. "I
heard the old man say that Miss Puffkin said it was a
daisy. The name of it was, 'Married for the Mazuma,
or a Working Girl's Triumph.'"
"Say, you!" said the office boy confidentially, "your
name's Slayton, ain't it? I guess I mixed cases on vou
without meanin' to do it. The boss give me some manu-
script to hand around the other day and I got the ones for
Miss Puffkin and the janitor mixed. I guess it's all right,
though."
And then Slayton looked closer and saw on the cover
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: 'Yea, since I cannot use it, ye may have it.'
Here laughed the father saying, 'Fie, Sir Churl,
Is that answer for a noble knight?
Allow him! but Lavaine, my younger here,
He is so full of lustihood, he will ride,
Joust for it, and win, and bring it in an hour,
And set it in this damsel's golden hair,
To make her thrice as wilful as before.'
'Nay, father, nay good father, shame me not
Before this noble knight,' said young Lavaine,
'For nothing. Surely I but played on Torre:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: unfinished range of columns, 'the Modern Ruin' as it has
been called, an imposing object from far and near, and
giving Edinburgh, even from the sea, that false air; of a
Modern Athens which has earned for her so many slighting
speeches. It was meant to be a National Monument; and
its present state is a very suitable monument to certain
national characteristics. The old Observatory - a quaint
brown building on the edge of the steep - and the new
Observatory - a classical edifice with a dome - occupy
the central portion of the summit. All these are
scattered on a green turf, browsed over by some sheep.
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