| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: Vasili Andreevich swerved aside to pass the other sledge.
In it sat three men and a woman, evidently visitors returning
from a feast. One peasant was whacking the snow-covered croup
of their little horse with a long switch, and the other two
sitting in front waved their arms and shouted something. The
woman, completely wrapped up and covered with snow, sat
drowsing and bumping at the back.
'Who are you?' shouted Vasili Andreevich.
'From A-a-a . . .' was all that could be heard.
'I say, where are you from?'
'From A-a-a-a!' one of the peasants shouted with all his might,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: ain't here, is she?"
"Yes, she's here!" Rough Rorke's voice held an ugly menace. "I lost
her around the corner, but a woman from a window across the street,
who heard the row, saw her run into this house. She ain't downstairs
- so you can figure the rest out the same way I do."
"De woman was kiddin' youse!" Rhoda Gray, alias Gypsy Nan, cackled
derisively. "Dere ain't nobody here but me."
"We'll see about that!" said Rough Rorke shortly. "Strike a light!"
"Aw, strike it yerself!" retorted Rhoda Gray. "I ain't yer servant!
Dere's a candle over dere on de washstand against de wall, if youse
wants it."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: with not only the principles, axioms, and maxims, but the
technicalities of English law, a knowledge so perfect and
intimate that he was never incorrect and never at fault. . . .
The mode in which this knowledge was pressed into service on all
occasions to express his meaning and illustrate his thoughts was
quite unexampled. He seems to have had a special pleasure in his
complete and ready mastership of it in all its branches. As
manifested in the plays, this legal knowledge and learning had
therefore a special character which places it on a wholly
different footing from the rest of the multifarious knowledge
which is exhibited in page after page of the plays. At every
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