| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: likely to do much work for a long while, and was cross enough
at the turn affairs had taken since her remarriage to him.
"I'm hanged if you haven't been clever in this last stroke!"
she would say, "to get a nurse for nothing by marrying me!"
Jude was absolutely indifferent to what she said, and indeed,
often regarded her abuse in a humorous light. Sometimes his
mood was more earnest, and as he lay he often rambled on upon
the defeat of his early aims.
"Every man has some little power in some one direction,"
he would say. "I was never really stout enough for the stone trade,
particularly the fixing. Moving the blocks always used to strain me,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa: in the hunt for the missing child. Along the shore of the lakes,
among the high-grown reeds, they looked in vain. He was nowhere to
be found. After many days and nights the search was given up. It
was sad, indeed, to hear the mother wailing aloud for her little
son.
It was growing late in the autumn. The birds were flying high
toward the south. The teepees around the lakes were gone, save one
lonely dwelling.
Till the winter snow covered the ground and ice covered the
lakes, the wailing woman's voice was heard from that solitary
wigwam. From some far distance was also the sound of the father's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: so wretchedly served, and so insolently, that you will
haul down your colors, and go to impoverishing yourself
with fees.
It seems to me that it would be a happy idea to import
the European feeing system into America. I believe it
would result in getting even the bells of the Philadelphia
hotels answered, and cheerful service rendered.
The greatest American hotels keep a number of clerks
and a cashier, and pay them salaries which mount up
to a considerable total in the course of a year.
The great continental hotels keep a cashier on a trifling
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