| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: his bonnet, something chequered with dark."
"White, chequered with dark," repeated Dick. "Faith, 'tis a badge
I know not. It is none of this country's badges. Well, an that be
so, let us slip as quietly forth from this garden as we may; for
here we are in an evil posture for defence. Beyond all question
there are men of Sir Daniel's in that house, and to be taken
between two shots is a beggarman's position. Take me this ladder;
I must leave it where I found it."
They returned the ladder to the stable, and groped their way to the
place where they had entered.
Capper had taken Greensheve's position on the cope, and now he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: a long race of monarchs had deposited their treasures. They then
closed up the opening with marble, which was never to be removed
but in the utmost exigences of the kingdom, and recorded their
accumulations in a book, which was itself concealed in a tower, not
entered but by the Emperor, attended by the prince who stood next
in succession.
CHAPTER II - THE DISCONTENT OF RASSELAS IN THE HAPPY VALLEY.
HERE the sons and daughters of Abyssinia lived only to know the
soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose, attended by all that were
skilful to delight, and gratified with whatever the senses can
enjoy. They wandered in gardens of fragrance, and slept in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Macbeth by William Shakespeare: Exeunt.
Scena Quinta.
Thunder. Enter the three Witches, meeting Hecat.
1. Why how now Hecat, you looke angerly?
Hec. Haue I not reason (Beldams) as you are?
Sawcy, and ouer-bold, how did you dare
To Trade, and Trafficke with Macbeth,
In Riddles, and Affaires of death;
And I the Mistris of your Charmes,
The close contriuer of all harmes,
Was neuer call'd to beare my part,
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