| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: Felicia, and not knowing the immense joy in store for him to-
morrow."
There was such artificiality in the wax-flower lady that nothing in
this speech touched Renouard. It was but the simple anxiety of his
heart that he was voicing when he muttered gloomily -
"No one in the world knows what to-morrow may hold in store."
The mature lady had a recoil as though he had said something
impolite. What a harsh thing to say - instead of finding something
nice and appropriate. On board, where she never saw him in evening
clothes, Renouard's resemblance to a duke's son was not so apparent
to her. Nothing but his - ah - bohemianism remained. She rose
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: That was one employment we had, and it made me feel less lonesome;
but there was no profit in the thing, for though the priest came
and sat and yarned, none of his folks could be enticed into my
store; and if it hadn't been for the other occupation I struck out,
there wouldn't have been a pound of copra in the house. This was
the idea: Fa'avao (Uma's mother) had a score of bearing trees. Of
course we could get no labour, being all as good as tabooed, and
the two women and I turned to and made copra with our own hands.
It was copra to make your mouth water when it was done - I never
understood how much the natives cheated me till I had made that
four hundred pounds of my own hand - and it weighed so light I felt
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: gave Wendy a hand at first, but had to desist, Tink was so
indignant.
Up and down they went, and round and round. Heavenly was
Wendy's word.
"I say," cried John, "why shouldn't we all go out?"
Of course it was to this that Peter had been luring them.
Michael was ready: he wanted to see how long it took him to do
a billion miles. But Wendy hesitated.
"Mermaids!" said Peter again.
"Oo!"
"And there are pirates."
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