| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: pounds, and the leather business, and the contingent interest,
and get nothing? Thank you.'
'It's like you to feel gratitude, Morris,' began Michael.
'O, I know it's no good appealing to you, you sneering devil!'
cried Morris. 'But there's a stranger present, I can't think why,
and I appeal to him. I was robbed of that money when I was an
orphan, a mere child, at a commercial academy. Since then, I've
never had a wish but to get back my own. You may hear a lot of
stuff about me; and there's no doubt at times I have been
ill-advised. But it's the pathos of my situation; that's what I
want to show you.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: Later in the afternoon, she asked Lalaperu where they had gone.
"My word," quoth Lalaperu; "plenty walk about, plenty look 'm.
Look 'm tree; look 'm ground belong tree; look 'm all fella bridge;
look 'm copra-house; look 'm grass-land; look 'm river; look 'm
whale-boat--my word, plenty big fella look 'm too much."
"What fella man them two fella?" she queried.
"Big fella marster along white man," was the extent of his
description.
But Joan decided that they were men of importance in the Solomons,
and that their examination of the plantation and of its accounts
was of sinister significance.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: a delightful occasion, and there was something particularly agreeable
in the circumstances in which our young Englishmen found themselves.
They were extremely good natured young men; they were more observant than
they appeared; in a sort of inarticulate, accidentally dissimulative fashion,
they were highly appreciative. This was, perhaps, especially the case
with the elder, who was also, as I have said, the man of talent.
They sat down at a little table, which was a very different affair
from the great clattering seesaw in the saloon of the steamer.
The wide doors and windows of the restaurant stood open, beneath large
awnings, to a wide pavement, where there were other plants in tubs,
and rows of spreading trees, and beyond which there was a large
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