| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: drift over there and tell her it's all right. She's the gamest
little woman that ever crossed the Wyoming line. Hadn't been for
her these boys would have been across the divide hours ago. She's
a plumb thoroughbred. Wouldn't give up an inch. All day she has
generaled this thing; played a mighty weak hand for a heap more
than it was worth. Sand? Seh: she's grit clear through, if
anybody asks you." And Denver told the story of the day, making
much of her unflinching courage and nothing of her men's
readiness to back whatever steps she decided upon.
It was ten minutes past eleven when a smooth young, apple-cheeked
lad in khaki presented himself before Helen Messiter with a bow
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: and stopped him sharply. Below us in the middle of a steep
hollow, a pit in the hill-side, a light shone out through some
aperture and quivered on the mist, like the pale lamp of a
moorland hobgoblin. It made itself visible, displaying nothing
else; a wisp of light in the bottom of a black bowl. Yet my
spirits rose with a great bound at sight of it; for I knew that I
had stumbled on the place I sought.
In the common run of things I should have weighed my next step
carefully, and gone about it slowly. But here was no place for
thought, nor room for delay; and I slid down the side of the
hollow on the instant, and the moment my feet touched the bottom
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The United States Bill of Rights: III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house,
without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war,
but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,
and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath
or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched,
and the persons or things to be seized.
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