| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett: knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled
newspaper. In the old days, a good part o' the best men here knew
a hundred ports and something of the way folks lived in them. They
saw the world for themselves, and like's not their wives and
children saw it with them. They may not have had the best of
knowledge to carry with 'em sight-seein', but they were some
acquainted with foreign lands an' their laws, an' could see outside
the battle for town clerk here in Dunnet; they got some sense o'
proportion. Yes, they lived more dignified, and their houses were
better within an' without. Shipping's a terrible loss to this part
o' New England from a social point o' view, ma'am."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: to be seen.
"Judging by the loss of blood, death must have come quickly."
"There was no struggle, evidently, for everything in the room was
in perfect order when we entered it."
"There is not even a chair misplaced. His Bible is there on the
desk, he may have been preparing for to-clay's sermon."
"Yes, that is the case; because see, here are some notes in his
handwriting."
The Count and Judge von Kormendy spoke these sentences at intervals
as they made their examination of the room. The local magistrate
was able to answer one or two simpler questions, but for the most
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: ACT 6:10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by
which he spake.
ACT 6:11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak
blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
ACT 6:12 And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the
scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the
council,
ACT 6:13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not
to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
ACT 6:14 For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall
destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered
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