| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: And now came the hitch of our adventure; for when the
policeman, still closely following us, beheld my two boxes
lying in the rain, he arose from mere suspicion to a kind of
certitude of something evil. The light in the house had been
extinguished; the whole frontage of the street was dark;
there was nothing to explain the presence of these unguarded
trunks; and no two innocent people were ever, I believe,
detected in such questionable circumstances.
'Where have these things come from?' asked the policeman,
flashing his light full into my champion's face.
'Why, from that house, of course,' replied the young
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: Repeating, till the word we know so well
Becomes a wonder, and we know not why,
So dwelt the father on her face, and thought
'Is this Elaine?' till back the maiden fell,
Then gave a languid hand to each, and lay,
Speaking a still good-morrow with her eyes.
At last she said, 'Sweet brothers, yesternight
I seemed a curious little maid again,
As happy as when we dwelt among the woods,
And when ye used to take me with the flood
Up the great river in the boatman's boat.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: us irresistibly of our Angevin kings.
There is only one criminal who vies with Charley Peace in
that genial popular regard which makes Charles "Charley" and John
"Jack," and that is Jack Sheppard. What Jack was to the
eighteenth century, that Charley was to the nineteenth. And each
one is in a sense typical of his period. Lecky has said that the
eighteenth century is richer than any other in the romance of
crime. I think it may fairly be said that in the nineteenth
century the romance of crime ceased to be. In the eighteenth
century the scenery and dresses, all the stage setting of crime
make for romance; its literature is quaint and picturesque; there
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