| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: bidding good-night to his hostess, had put out his hand in farewell
to the master of the house. Besides drawing from the latter the
protest I have cited this movement provoked a further priceless
word about their chance now to have a talk, their going into his
room, his having still everything to say. Paul Overt was all
delight at this kindness; nevertheless he mentioned in weak jocose
qualification the bare fact that he had promised to go to another
place which was at a considerable distance.
"Well then you'll break your promise, that's all. You quite awful
humbug!" St. George added in a tone that confirmed our young man's
ease.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: the sum of 100 pounds of his Crossraguel pension. We may believe as
we choose the story in Mackenzie's "Scotch Writers" that when he
felt himself dying, he asked his servant Young about the state of
his funds, and finding he had not enough to bury himself withal,
ordered what he had to be given to the poor, and said that if they
did not choose to bury him they might let him lie where he was, or
cast him in a ditch, the matter was very little to him. He was
buried, it seems, at the expense of the city of Edinburgh, in the
Greyfriars' Churchyard--one says in a plain turf grave--among the
marble monuments which covered the bones of worse or meaner men; and
whether or not the "Throughstone" which, "sunk under the ground in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: there. Would you like to go with me, Dorothy?"
"Of course," answered the little girl; "I wouldn't
miss it for anything."
"Then order the Red Wagon," said Ozma of Oz, "and we
will start at once."
Dorothy ran to do as she was bid, while Ozma went to
her Magic Room to make ready the things she believed
she would need. In half an hour the Red Wagon stood
before the grand entrance of the palace, and before it
was hitched the Wooden Sawhorse, which was Ozma's
favorite steed.
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