| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: entrance of their terrible patient, animated by supernatural
strength, and in the company, perhaps, of some being more
dreadful than herself. Morning came at length. They sought
brake, rock, and thicket in vain. Two hours after daylight, the
minister himself appeared, and, on the report of the watchers,
caused the country to be alarmed, and a general and exact search
to be made through the whole neighbourhood of the cottage and the
oak-tree. But it was all in vain. Elspat MacTavish was never
found, whether dead or alive; nor could there ever be traced the
slightest circumstance to indicate her fate.
The neighbourhood was divided concerning the cause of her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catherine de Medici by Honore de Balzac: low forehead indicated only extreme energy. Life seemed to centre in
his chest, which was rather hollow. More nervous than sanguine,
Cristophe's bodily appearance was thin and threadlike, but wiry. His
pointed noise expressed the shrewdness of the people, and his
countenance revealed an intelligence capable of conducting itself well
on a single point of the circumference, without having the faculty of
seeing all around it. His eyes, the arching brows of which, scarcely
covered with a whitish down, projected like an awning, were strongly
circled by a pale-blue band, the skin being white and shining at the
spring of the nose,--a sign which almost always denotes excessive
enthusiasm. Christophe was of the people,--the people who devote
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: whole crew that as she was a lady and a Christian, he expected them
to behave to her as such. So there was as much bowing and scraping
on the poop as if it had been a prince's court: and Ayacanora,
though sorely puzzled and chagrined at Amyas's new solemnity,
contrived to imitate it pretty well (taking for granted that it was
the right thing); and having tolerable masters in the art of
manners (for both Amyas and Cary were thoroughly well-bred men),
profited much in all things, except in intimacy with Amyas, who
had, cunning fellow, hit on this parade of good manners, as a fresh
means of increasing the distance between him and her. The crew, of
course, though they were a little vexed at losing their pet,
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