| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: now only remained to get the men on shore, to surround the house
with a strong party, burst in the door and carry off the captive.
They might then regard themselves as done with the Good Hope; it
had placed them on the rear of their enemies; and the retreat,
whether they should succeed or fail in the main enterprise, would
be directed with a greater measure of hope in the direction of the
forest and my Lord Foxham's reserve.
To get the men on shore, however, was no easy task; many had been
sick, all were pierced with cold; the promiscuity and disorder on
board had shaken their discipline; the movement of the ship and the
darkness of the night had cowed their spirits. They made a rush
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: served, it was difficult for such an ardent imagination not to
prefer this life of studied and refined luxury to the hardships
of the life which he had chosen only that morning.
His thoughts went back for a moment to the lodging-house, and
with a feeling of profound loathing, he vowed to himself that at
New Year he would go; prompted at least as much by a desire to
live among cleaner surroundings as by a wish to shake off
Vautrin, whose huge hand he seemed to feel on his shoulder at
that moment. When you consider the numberless forms, clamorous or
mute, that corruption takes in Paris, common-sense begins to
wonder what mental aberration prompted the State to establish
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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: in unum locum coegerant; quibus amissis reliqui neque quo se reciperent
neque quem ad modum oppida defenderent habebant. Itaque se suaque omnia
Caesari dediderunt. In quos eo gravius Caesar vindicandum statuit quo
diligentius in reliquum tempus a barbaris ius legatorum conservaretur.
Itaque omni senatu necato reliquos sub corona vendidit.
Dum haec in Venetis geruntur, Q. Titurius Sabinus cum iis copiis quas
a Caesare acceperat in fines Venellorum pervenit. His praeerat Viridovix
ac summam imperii tenebat earum omnium civitatum quae defecerant, ex
quibus exercitum [magnasque scopias] coegerat; atque his paucis diebus
Aulerci Eburovices Lexoviique, senatu suo interfecto quod auctores belli
esse nolebant, portas clauserunt seque cum Viridovice coniunxerunt;
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