| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: nor less than intoxicated--yes, drunk."
"Hah! who--what--wh--what are you talking about?" gasped Condy
sitting bolt upright.
"Jack Carter," answered Travis. "No," she added. shaking her
head at him helplessly, "he hasn't been listening to a word. I'm
talking about Jack Carter and the 'Saturday Evening' last night."
"No, no, I haven't heard. Forgive me; I was thinking--thinking of
something else. Who was drunk?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: With this immodest clamorous outrage
To trouble and disturb the king and us?
And you, my lords, methinks you do not well
To bear with their perverse objections;
Much less to take occasion from their mouths
To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves:
Let me persuade you take a better course.
EXETER.
It grieves his highness: good my lords, be friends.
KING.
Come hither, you that would be combatants:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: hours for a long time.
"Thank you for taking me out, Jim," she said,
gratefully. "You'll be going back up to Seltzer's
now, of course."
"To -- with Seltzer's," said "Big Jim," em-
emphatically. "And d-- Pat Corrigan! Does
he think I haven't got any eyes?
And the door closed behind both of them.
LITTLE SPECK IN GARNERED FRUIT
The honeymoon was at its full. There was a flat
with the reddest of new carpets, tasselled portieres
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