| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: and take the chase.--Who has the nearest bloodhound?"
"It's young Earnscliff," answered another; "and he's been on and
away wi' six horse lang syne, to see if he can track them."
"Let us follow him then, and raise the country, and mak mair help
as we ride, and then have at the Cumberland reivers! Take, burn,
and slay--they that lie nearest us shall smart first."
"Whisht! haud your tongues, daft callants," said an old man, "ye
dinna ken what ye speak about. What! wad ye raise war atween two
pacificated countries?"
"And what signifies deaving us wi' tales about our fathers,"
retorted the young; man, "if we're to sit and see our friends'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: and silence of our days. It was not only man who was
excluded: animals, the song of birds, the lowing of cattle,
the bleating of sheep, clouds even, and the variations of the
weather, were here also wanting; and as, day after day, the
sky was one dome of blue, and the pines below us stood
motionless in the still air, so the hours themselves were
marked out from each other only by the series of our own
affairs, and the sun's great period as he ranged westward
through the heavens. The two birds cackled a while in the
early morning; all day the water tinkled in the shaft, the
bores ground sawdust in the planking of our crazy palace -
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: hear the boy's words. At all events he did not answer them, but
himself asked an unexpected question - a question that was not
addressed to the others in the room, but to something out and
beyond them. It was a strange question and it came from the lips
of a man whose mind was not with his body at that moment - whose
mind saw what others did not see.
"Who will be the next to go? And who will be our pastor now?"
These were Janci's words.
"What are you talking about, shepherd? Is it another one of your
visions?" exclaimed the young fellow who stood there before him.
Janci rubbed his hands over his eyes and seemed to come down to
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