The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: club, telling myself that I had been something of a skunk; for I had
inquired for Mrs. McLean in a certain tone, and I had hinted to Lin that
he had lacked caution; and this was nothing but a way of saying "I told
you so" to the man that is down. Down Lin certainly was, although it had
not come so home to me until our little walk together just now along the
boards.
At the club I found the Governor teaching Ogden a Cheyenne specialty--a
particular drink, the Allston cocktail. "It's the bitters that does the
trick," he was saying, but saw me and called out: "You ought to have been
with us and seen Jode. I showed him the telegram, you know. He read it
through, and just handed it back to me, and went on monkeying with his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and savage glint, for their owner was struggling with
an intangible suggestion of the familiarity of the face
and figure of the woman below him.
A sudden crashing of the bushes at the point from which
Jane Clayton had emerged into the clearing brought her
to a sudden stop and attracted the attention of the
Arabs and the watcher in the tree to the same point.
The woman wheeled about to see what new danger menaced
her from behind, and as she did so a great, anthropoid
ape waddled into view. Behind him came another and
another; but Lady Greystoke did not wait to learn how
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: cache their stolen gold up in the mountains before they risk
crossing into Sonora. They figure Bucky'll be on the lookout for
them," the sheriff said to his deputy.
"I believe you've guessed it, Val. Stands to reason they'll want
to get rid of the loot soon as they can. Oh, hell!"
Dillon's disgust proved justifiable, for the trail had lost
itself in a mountain stream, up or down which the outlaws must
have filed. A month later and the creek would have been dry. But
it was still spring. The mountain rains had not ceased feeding
the brook, and of this the outlaws had taken advantage to wipe
out their trail.
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