| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: manner of provision with him."
"It is to be hoped so, Vallancey; but hardly to be supposed," quoth
Trenchard, and then he touched Wilding on the arm and pointed with his
whip across the fields towards Taunton. A cloud of dust was rising
from between tall hedges where ran the road. "I think it were wise to
be moving. At least, this sudden landing of James Scott relieves my
mind in the matter of that letter."
Wilding, having taken a look at the floating dust that announced the
oncoming of their pursuers, was now lost in thought. Vallancey, who,
beyond excitement at the news of which he was the bearer, seemed to
have no opinion of his own as to the wisdom or folly of the Duke's
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: sat at opposite sides of a little table. The one, Peter
of Colfax, was short and very stout. His red, bloated
face, bleary eyes and bulbous nose bespoke the manner
of his life; while his thick lips, the lower hanging large
and flabby over his receding chin, indicated the base
passions to which his life and been given. His com-
panion was a little, grim, gray man but his suit of
armor and closed helm gave no hint to his host of whom
his guest might be. It was the little armored man who
was speaking.
"Is it not enough that I offer to aid you, Sir Peter,"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: atque inde fundis, sagittis, tormentis hostes propelli ac submoveri
iussit; quae res magno usui nostris fuit. Nam et navium figura et remorum
motu et inusitato genere tormentorum permoti barbari constiterunt ac
paulum modo pedem rettulerunt. Atque nostris militibus cunctantibus,
maxime propter altitudinem maris, qui X legionis aquilam gerebat,
obtestatus deos, ut ea res legioni feliciter eveniret, ' desilite',
inquit, ' milites, nisi vultis aquilam hostibus prodere; ego certe meum
rei publicae atque imperatori officium praestitero.' Hoc cum voce magna
dixisset, se ex navi proiecit atque in hostes aquilam ferre coepit. Tum
nostri cohortati inter se, ne tantum dedecus admitteretur, universi ex
navi desiluerunt. Hos item ex proximis primi navibus cum conspexissent,
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