| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: her cheek with his copper lips.
"Oh, Billina!" cried Dorothy, in a glad voice, and the yellow hen flew
to her arms, to be hugged and petted by turns.
The others were curiously crowding around the group, and the girl said
to them:
"It's Tik-tok and Billina; and oh! I'm so glad to see them again."
"Wel-come to Oz," said the copper man in a monotonous voice.
Dorothy sat right down in the road, the yellow hen in her arms, and
began to stroke Billina's back. Said the hen:
"Dorothy, dear, I've got some wonderful news to tell you."
"Tell it quick, Billina!" said the girl.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: of the young men--the young savants--was so good as to drop there.
Did you see the young savants who work under Gordon's orders?
I thought they were too forlorn; there is n't one of them
you would look at. If you can believe it, there was n't
one of them that looked at me; they took no more notice of me
than if I had been the charwoman. They might have shown me
some attention, at least, as the wife of the proprietor.
What is it that Gordon 's called--is n't there some other name?
If you say 'proprietor,' it sounds as if he kept an hotel.
I certainly don't want to pass for the wife of an hotel-keeper.
What does he call himself? He must have some name.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: Lindabrides, by Saint George, be he willing or no!"
"I would gladly pay your halves of the risk, sir," said
Tressilian, "to be permitted to accompany you on the adventure."
"In what would that advantage you, sir?" answered Lambourne.
"In nothing, sir," said Tressilian, "unless to mark the skill and
valour with which you conduct yourself. I am a traveller who
seeks for strange rencounters and uncommon passages, as the
knights of yore did after adventures and feats of arms."
"Nay, if it pleasures you to see a trout tickled," answered
Lambourne, "I care not how many witness my skill. And so here I
drink success to my enterprise; and he that will not pledge me on
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