| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: To my astonishment, the effort brought immediately a stern change over
John Mayrant's face; then he answered in the kindest tones, "Thank you,
Daddy Ben."
This answer interpreted for me the whole thing, which otherwise would
have been obscure enough: the old man held it to be an indignity that his
young "Mas' John" should, by the President's act, find himself the
subordinate of a member of the black race, and he had just now, in his
perspiring effort, expressed his sympathy! Why he had chosen this
particular moment (after quite obvious debate with himself) I did not see
until somewhat later.
He now left us standing at the gate; and it was not for some moments that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: bright rays upon the long stretch of open garden beneath the
wall. And, too, it picked out in clear relief for any curious
eyes that chanced to be cast in that direction, the figure of the
giant ape-man moving across the clearing. It was only chance,
of course, that a great lion hunting at the edge of the forest
saw the figure of the man halfway between the forest and the
wall. Suddenly there broke upon Tarzan's ears a menacing
sound. It was not the roar of a hungry lion, but the roar of
a lion in rage, and, as he glanced back in the direction from
which the sound came, he saw a huge beast moving out from
the shadow of the forest toward him.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: Whene'er you are happy and cannot tell why,
The Friend of the Children is sure to be by!
He loves to be little, he hates to be big,
'T is he that inhabits the caves that you dig;
'T is he when you play with your soldiers of tin
That sides with the Frenchmen and never can win.
'T is he, when at night you go off to your bed,
Bids you go to sleep and not trouble your head;
For wherever they're lying, in cupboard or shelf,
'T is he will take care of your playthings himself!
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