| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: delighted with my covering from the elements, that I made a vain
attempt to have it rolled on to my next quarters; but my
commander for the time would give way to no such luxurious
provision, and I took farewell of my beloved cask with tears in
my eyes."
"Well, then, since you do not fear your quarters," said Lord
Woodville, "you will stay with me a week at least. Of guns,
dogs, fishing-rods, flies, and means of sport by sea and land, we
have enough and to spare--you cannot pitch on an amusement but we
will find the means of pursuing it. But if you prefer the gun
and pointers, I will go with you myself, and see whether you have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: lawyer at Bishopstoke, his face was flushed with his exertions,
and his cigar, which he had suffered to go out was almost bitten
in two.
'By George, but this has been a lark!' he cried. 'I've sent the
wrong thing to everybody in England. These cousins of yours have
a packing-case as big as a house. I've muddled the whole business
up to that extent, Finsbury, that if it were to get out it's my
belief we should get lynched.'
It was useless to be serious with Mr Wickham. 'Take care,' said
Michael. 'I am getting tired of your perpetual scrapes; my
reputation is beginning to suffer.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: do."
"Do you think of these things--these matters--as belonging to our
Higher Nature or our Lower?"
"I don't deal in Higher Things, I tell you," said Ann Veronica,
"or Lower, for the matter of that. I don't classify." She
hesitated. "Flesh and flowers are all alike to me."
"That's the comfort of you. Well, after a time there came a
fever in my blood. Don't think it was anything better than
fever--or a bit beautiful. It wasn't. Quite soon, after we were
married--it was just within a year--I formed a friendship with
the wife of a friend, a woman eight years older than myself. . .
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