| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: pirate and a wild, reckless blade twenty years ago, why, he is
Sir John Malyoe now and the owner of a fine estate in Devonshire.
Well, Master Barnaby, when one is a baronet and come into the
inheritance of a fine estate (though I do hear it is vastly
cumbered with debts), the world will wink its eye to much that he
may have done twenty years ago. I do hear say, though, that his
own kin still turn the cold shoulder to him."
To this address Barnaby answered nothing, but sat smoking away at
his cigarro at a great rate.
And so that night Barnaby True came face to face for the first
time with the man who murdered his own grandfather--the greatest
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling: not to say it dodging, and Dan makes the most awful mess
of fractions. He can't mean us!'
'Una!' Dan called back. 'Sir Richard says he is going to
tell what happened to Weland's sword. He's got it. Isn't it
splendid?'
'Nay - nay,' said Sir Richard, dismounting as they
reached the Ring, in the bend of the mill-stream bank. 'It
is you that must tell me, for I hear the youngest child in
our England today is as wise as our wisest clerk.' He
slipped the bit out of Swallow's mouth, dropped the
ruby-red reins over his head, and the wise horse moved
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: her chair, casting a glance charged with the consciousness
of an expensive appearance first down over her flounces and then
up at Newman.
"You had better have remained an honest girl," Newman said, quietly.
M. Nioche continued to stare at the bottom of his glass,
and his daughter got up, still bravely smiling.
"You mean that I look so much like one? That's more than most
women do nowadays. Don't judge me yet a while," she added.
"I mean to succeed; that's what I mean to do. I leave you;
I don't mean to be seen in cafes, for one thing. I can't think
what you want of my poor father; he's very comfortable now.
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