| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: "Gi dap!" remarked the driver.
We moved forward down the white wagon trail
approaching the mountains. And then we were
witnesses of the most marvelous transformation. For
as we neared them, those impregnable mountains,
as though panic-stricken by our advance, shrunk
back, dissolved, dwindled, went to pieces. Where
had towered ten-thousand-foot peaks, perfect in the
regular succession from timber to snow, now were
little flat hills on which grew tiny bushes of sage. A
passage opened between them. In a hundred yards
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne: they would end my difficulties, by setting me there to-night."
Nevertheless, the youth felt an instinctive antipathy towards the
guardian of midnight order, which at first prevented him from
asking his usual question. But just when the man was about to
vanish behind the corner, Robin resolved not to lose the
opportunity, and shouted lustily after him, "I say, friend! will
you guide me to the house of my kinsman, Major Molineux?"
The watchman made no reply, but turned the corner and was gone;
yet Robin seemed to hear the sound of drowsy laughter stealing
along the solitary street. At that moment, also, a pleasant
titter saluted him from the open window above his head; he looked
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: bull-terrier, a Toby ruff about his sturdy neck.
"Good man," said my lady, pointing a finger at me. "Good man."
The dog came forward, wagging his tail. I stooped and spoke with
him. Then I turned to his mistress. She had discarded her white
hat and drawn on a long dust-coat, which reached almost to her
ankles. She held it close about her, as she walked. It showed
off her slim figure to great advantage. Below, the wide edges of
white duck trousers just appeared above shining insteps and high
heeled shoes.
When the urchin had come up, she took the jug from him with both
hands.
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