| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: were to meet her,' continued Ethel, 'I feel I should say something that I
should regret. Oh, Richard, I suppose we shall have to give up that house
on Park Avenue!'"
"I put a cheerful and even insular face on the matter, for I could not
bear to see Ethel so depressed. But it was hard work for me. Some few of
my investments were evidently good; but it always seemed as if it was
into these that I had happened to put not much money, while the bulk of
my fortune was entangled in the others. Besides the usual Midsummer
faintness that overtakes the stock market, my own specialties were a good
deal more than faint. On the 20th of August I took the afternoon train to
spend my two weeks' holiday at Lenox; and during much of the journey I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: bank clerk, or the lithographer, they are constant quantities,
and as recognizable as the North Star to the night-watch on deck.
To all this Morris was alive. In the theory of that graceful art
in which he was now embarking, our spirited leather-merchant was
beyond all reproach. But, happily for the investor, forgery is an
affair of practice. And as Morris sat surrounded by examples of
his uncle's signature and of his own incompetence, insidious
depression stole upon his spirits. From time to time the wind
wuthered in the chimney at his back; from time to time there
swept over Bloomsbury a squall so dark that he must rise and
light the gas; about him was the chill and the mean disorder of a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: good water whereof Tommy drank greedily, we following his
example. To the right and left of this plain, further than we
could see, stretched bushland over which towered many palms,
rather ragged now because of the lashing of the gale. Looking
inland we perceived that the ground sloped gently downwards,
ending at a distance of some miles in a large lake. Far out in
this lake something like the top of a mountain of a brown colour
rose above the water, and on the edge of it was what from that
distance appeared to be a tumbled ruin.
"This is all very interesting," I said to Bickley. "What do you
make of it?"
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