| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: anchor was let go.
The first cruise of the Currency Lass had thus ended in a stroke
of fortune almost beyond hope. She had brought two thousand
pounds' worth of trade, straight as a homing pigeon, to the
place where it was most required. And Captain Wicks (or,
rather, Captain Kirkup) showed himself the man to make the
best of his advantage. For hard upon two days he walked a
verandah with Topelius, for hard upon two days his partners
watched from the neighbouring public house the field of battle;
and the lamps were not yet lighted on the evening of the second
before the enemy surrendered. Wicks came across to the Sans
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: king has spoiled him of his name and property."
"True," said Aramis; "but silence! the president is speaking
to the king."
"Stuart," Bradshaw was saying, "listen to the roll call of
your judges and address to the court any observations you
may have to make."
The king turned his head away, as if these words had not
been intended for him. Bradshaw waited, and as there was no
reply there was a moment of silence.
Out of the hundred and sixty-three members designated there
were only seventy-three present, for the rest, fearful of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: Pierre did not know.
Pierre could not afterwards remember how he went, whether it was
far, or in which direction. His faculties were quite numbed, he was
stupefied, and noticing nothing around him went on moving his legs
as the others did till they all stopped and he stopped too. The only
thought in his mind at that time was: who was it that had really
sentenced him to death? Not the men on the commission that had first
examined him- not one of them wished to or, evidently, could have done
it. It was not Davout, who had looked at him in so human a way. In
another moment Davout would have realized that he was doing wrong, but
just then the adjutant had come in and interrupted him. The
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