| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Philosophy 4 by Owen Wister: thought it had humorists to deal with this day.
Oscar, as a matter of fact, was eating his cheap lunch away over in
Cambridge. There was cold mutton, and boiled potatoes with hard brown
spots in them, and large picked cucumbers; and the salt was damp and
would not shake out through the holes in the top of the bottle. But
Oscar ate two helps of everything with a good appetite, and between
whiles looked at his notes, which lay open beside him on the table. At
the stroke of two he was again knocking at his pupils' door. But no
answer came. John had gone away somewhere for indefinite hours and the
door was locked. So Oscar wrote: "Called, two p.m.," on a scrap of
envelope, signed his name, and put it through the letter-slit. It
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: has come forward in support of the "Fugitive
Slave Bill," by publishing a sermon entitled the
"Religious Duty of Obedience to the Laws," which
has elicited the highest encomiums from Dr.
Samuel H. Cox, the Presbyterian minister of
Brooklyn (notorious both in this country and
America for his sympathy with the slaveholder).
The Rev. W. M. Rogers, an orthodox minister
of Boston, delivered a sermon in which he
says, "When the slave asks me to stand be-
tween him and his master, what does he ask?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: 'For his sake, poor fellow, I might.'
'Coming along I said to myself, "She CAN score off me badly, but
surely she doesn't want to so much as all that." Besides, I really
only took your leavings, you know. You threw poor Fred Prendergast
over.'
'I am not prepared to discuss that,' Madeline said, at no pains to
smooth the curve out of her lip.
'Then I thought, "Perhaps--you never can tell with people--she will
think it her DUTY to make a fuss."'
'That is a possible point of view.'
'I know. You think I'm an imposter on society and I ought to be
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