| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: he yelled something at me, but I never hearn what.
I licked them hosses into a gallop and went around
the turn of the road. And that's the last I ever
seen or hearn of Hank or Elmira or that there little
town.
CHAPTER V
I slowed down when I got to the school-
house, and both them fellers piled in.
"I guess I better turn north fur about
a mile and then turn west, Doctor Kirby," I says,
"so as to make a kind of a circle around that town."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: dinner. Now, possibly Mr. Lockhard's talent may consist in
finding some substitute for that which certainly is not, and has
in all probability never been."
"Your honour is pleased to be facetious," said Caleb, "but I am
sure that, for the warst, for a walk as far as Wolf's Hope, I
could dine forty men--no that the folk there deserve your
honour's custom. They hae been ill advised in the matter of the
duty eggs and butter, I winna deny that."
"Do go consult together," said the Master; "go down to the
village, and do the best you can. We must not let our guests
remain without refreshment, to save the honour of a ruined
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen: and leaves out of them altogether, for the whole balcony outside, the yard,
and the walls, were overgrown with so much green stuff, that it looked like a
garden; only a balcony. Here stood old flower-pots with faces and asses' ears,
and the flowers grew just as they liked. One of the pots was quite overrun on
all sides with pinks, that is to say, with the green part; shoot stood by
shoot, and it said quite distinctly, "The air has cherished me, the sun has
kissed me, and promised me a little flower on Sunday! a little flower on
Sunday!"
And then they entered a chamber where the walls were covered with hog's
leather, and printed with gold flowers.
"The gilding decays,
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