| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: hill, pushed on through the crowd, unable, from the tumultuous
state of his feelings, to do more than receive and return the
grasps of the friendly hands by which his neighbours and kinsmen
mutely expressed their sympathy in his misfortune. While he
pressed Simon of Hackburn's hand, his anxiety at length found
words. "Thank ye, Simon--thank ye, neighbours--I ken what ye wad
a' say. But where are they?--Where are--" He stopped, as if
afraid even to name the objects of his enquiry; and with a
similar feeling, his kinsmen, without reply, pointed to the hut,
into which Hobbie precipitated himself with the desperate air of
one who is resolved to know the worst at once. A general and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: some tobacco. He was younger than the others; and, in a
somewhat meaningless and altogether English way, he was a
handsome lad. When he had been served, and had lighted his
pipe and taken his place upon the sofa, he recalled himself
to Challoner by the name of Desborough.
'Desborough, to be sure,' cried Challoner. 'Well,
Desborough, and what do you do?'
'The fact is,' said Desborough, 'that I am doing nothing.'
'A private fortune possibly?' inquired the other.
'Well, no,' replied Desborough, rather sulkily. 'The fact is
that I am waiting for something to turn up.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: left their cabin. I invited them to follow me without saying where we were.
They mounted the platform. Conseil, who was astonished at nothing,
seemed to look upon it as quite natural that he should wake under
a mountain, after having fallen asleep under the waves. But Ned Land
thought of nothing but finding whether the cavern had any exit.
After breakfast, about ten o'clock, we went down on to the mountain.
"Here we are, once more on land," said Conseil.
"I do not call this land," said the Canadian. "And besides,
we are not on it, but beneath it."
Between the walls of the mountains and the waters of the lake lay a sandy
shore which, at its greatest breadth, measured five hundred feet.
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