| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: head in her hands. Her attitude acknowledged defeat. She was
despairingly certain that she would never see the last of the box
which she believed to contain Reginald Maltravers.
Cleggett did not hesitate an instant. "Lady Agatha," he said,
"the Jasper B. is at your service as long as you may require the
ship. The cabin is your home until we arrive at a solution of
your difficulties."
His glance and manner added what his tongue left unuttered--that
the commander of the ship was henceforth her devoted cavalier.
But she understood.
She extended her hand. Her answer was on her lips. But at that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: Oh, not a roof such as modern man makes! Nor a roof
such as is made by the lowest aborigines of to-day. It
was infinitely more clumsy than the clumsiest handiwork
of man--of man as we know him. It was put together in a
casual, helter-skelter sort of way. Above the fork of
the tree whereon we rested was a pile of dead branches
and brush. Four or five adjacent forks held what I may
term the various ridge-poles. These were merely stout
sticks an inch or so in diameter. On them rested the
brush and branches. These seemed to have been tossed on
almost aimlessly. There was no attempt at thatching.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: foam and sweat. The man now prepares to mount by pressing
heavily on the stirrup, so that the horse may not lose
its balance; and at the moment that he throws his leg over
the animal's back, he pulls the slip-knot binding the front
legs, and the beast is free. Some "domidors" pull the knot
while the animal is lying on the ground, and, standing over
the saddle, allow him to rise beneath them. The horse, wild
with dread, gives a few most violent bounds, and then starts
off at full gallop: when quite exhausted, the man, by patience,
brings him back to the corral, where, reeking hot and
scarcely alive, the poor beast is let free. Those animals
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