| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: to us as to the Covenanters. They tax the country according to
their pleasure, and dilapidate the estates of the King's friends;
now, were we once in the Lowlands, with our Highlanders and our
Irish at our backs, and our swords in our hands, we can find many
a fat traitor, whose ill-gotten wealth shall fill our military
chest and satisfy our soldiery. Besides, confiscations will fall
in thick; and, in giving donations of forfeited lands to every
adventurous cavalier who joins his standard, the King will at
once reward his friends and punish his enemies. In short, he
that joins these Roundhead dogs may get some miserable pittance
of pay--he that joins our standard has a chance to be knight,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: Keep your cargo to yourself; eat and drink it all if you can;
we are not to touch it."
Finding the subordinates incorruptible, Isaac determined
to go to the fountain-head. He addressed himself to Servadac,
and begged him to tell him the whole truth, piteously adding
that surely it was unworthy of a French officer to deceive
a poor old man like himself.
"Tell you the truth, man!" cried Servadac. "Confound it, I have
told you the truth twenty times. Once for all, I tell you now,
you have left yourself barely time enough to make your escape
to yonder mountain."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: themselves start the hare and be after her full cry, with bark and
clamour.[40] Thereupon, whether the hare falls into the toils of the
funnel net or rushes past outside or inside, whatever incident betide,
the net-keeper must with a shout proclaim the fact. Should the hare be
caught, the huntsman has only to begin looking for another; if not, he
must follow up the chase once more with like encouragement.
[38] Or, "whisking their tails and frisking wildly, and jostling
against one another, and leaping over one another at a great
rate." Al. "over one obstacle, and then another."
[39] Or, "this is the true line at last."
[40] Al. "with a crash of tongues."
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