| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: forth into the air, and trembled. 'Let them look out!' he
shouted. 'Here, I warn all men; I've done with this foul
kennel of knaves. Let them look out!'
'Hush, hush! for pity's sake,' cried Nance.
And then all of a sudden he dropped his face into his hands,
and broke out with a great hiccoughing dry sob that was
horrible to hear. 'O,' he cried, 'my God, if my son hadn't
left me, if my Dick was here!' and the sobs shook him; Nance
sitting still and watching him, with distress. 'O, if he
were here to help his father!' he went on again. 'If I had a
son like other fathers, he would save me now, when all is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to a frightful death upon the rocks below.
Then I turned toward the advancing Hoojans--
"Hoosiers," Perry dubbed them--even going so far as
to christen this island where Hooja held sway Indiana;
it is so marked now upon our maps. They were coming
on at a great rate. I raised my revolver, took deliberate
aim at the foremost warrior, and pulled the trigger.
With the bark of the gun the fellow lunged forward.
His head doubled beneath him. He rolled over and
over two or three times before he came to a stop, to
lie very quietly in the thick grass among the brilliant
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Bronte Sisters: only to know the worst, I can hardly tell. My painting materials
were laid together on the corner table, ready for to-morrow's use,
and only covered with a cloth. He soon spied them out, and putting
down the candle, deliberately proceeded to cast them into the fire:
palette, paints, bladders, pencils, brushes, varnish: I saw them
all consumed: the palette-knives snapped in two, the oil and
turpentine sent hissing and roaring up the chimney. He then rang
the bell.
'Benson, take those things away,' said he, pointing to the easel,
canvas, and stretcher; 'and tell the housemaid she may kindle the
fire with them: your mistress won't want them any more.'
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