| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: went into my stateroom as if I meant to take some rest.
There we two bent our dark heads over a half-unrolled chart
lying on my bed.
"There," I said. "It's got to be Koh-ring. I've been looking
at it ever since sunrise. It has got two hills and a low point.
It must be inhabited. And on the coast opposite there is what looks
like the mouth of a biggish river--with some towns, no doubt, not far up.
It's the best chance for you that I can see."
"Anything. Koh-ring let it be."
He looked thoughtfully at the chart as if surveying chances and
distances from a lofty height--and following with his eyes his own
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Margret Howth: A Story of To-day by Rebecca Harding Davis: "There are other things I don't know," he said, gloomily,
recurring to some subject Holmes had interrupted. "The House is
going to the Devil, Charley, headlong."
"There's no use in saying no," said the other; "you'll call me a
lying diviner."
Knowles did not listen.
"Seems as if I am to go groping and stumbling through the world
like some forsaken Cyclops with his eye out, dragging down
whatever I touch. If there were anything to hold by, anything
certain!"
Vandyke looked at him gravely, but did not answer; rose and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: their own existence."
Among the witnesses who appeared in Court was
the midwife who had assisted at the birth of Salome.
She testified to the existence of certain peculiar
marks upon the body of the child, which were
found, exactly as described, by the surgeons who
were appointed by the Court to make an examina-
tion for the purpose.
There was no trace of African descent in
any feature of Salome Muller. She had long,
straight, black hair, hazel eyes, thin lips, and
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