| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: thousand dollars; but I didn't say anything. It wouldn't
done any good. I says:
"But what are we going to tell your aunt Sally has made
us so long getting down here from the village, Tom?"
"Oh, I'll leave that to you," he says. "I reckon you
can explain it somehow."
He was always just that strict and delicate. He never
would tell a lie himself.
We struck across the big yard, noticing this, that, and t'other
thing that was so familiar, and we so glad to see it again,
and when we got to the roofed big passageway betwixt
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: not a man of action. Until lately I have been very moderate; more
moderate than you think. But now almost I am a republican. I have
been watching, and I have perceived that this King is - just nothing,
a puppet who dances according to the hand that pulls the string."
"This King, you say? What other king is possible? You are surely
not of those who weave dreams about Orleans? He has a sort of
party, a following largely recruited by the popular hatred of the
Queen and the known fact that she hates him. There are some who
have thought of making him regent, some even more; Robespierre is
of the number."
"Who?" asked Andre-Louis, to whom the name was unknown.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Death of the Lion by Henry James: "He's beset, badgered, bothered - he's pulled to pieces on the
pretext of being applauded. People expect him to give them his
time, his golden time, who wouldn't themselves give five shillings
for one of his books."
"Five? I'd give five thousand!"
"Give your sympathy - give your forbearance. Two-thirds of those
who approach him only do it to advertise themselves."
"Why it's too bad!" the girl exclaimed with the face of an angel.
"It's the first time I was ever called crude!" she laughed.
I followed up my advantage. "There's a lady with him now who's a
terrible complication, and who yet hasn't read, I'm sure, ten pages
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