| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: here with exceptional vitality, and the symbolic customs
which tradition has attached to each season of the year
were yet a reality on Egdon. Indeed, the impulses of all
such outlandish hamlets are pagan still--in these spots
homage to nature, self-adoration, frantic gaieties,
fragments of Teutonic rites to divinities whose names
are forgotten, seem in some way or other to have survived
mediaeval doctrine.
Yeobright did not interrupt the preparations, and went
home again. The next morning, when Thomasin withdrew
the curtains of her bedroom window, there stood the Maypole
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: sails first, was music to her; and she detected on the instant the
jamming of a jib-downhaul, and almost saw the impatient jerk with
which the sailor must have cleared it. Nor did she take interest
in the two men beside her till both lights, red and green, came
into view as the anchor checked the onward way.
Sheldon was wondering as to the identity of the craft, while Tudor
persisted in believing it might be the Martha.
"It's the Minerva," Joan said decidedly.
"How do you know?" Sheldon asked, sceptical of her certitude.
"It's a ketch to begin with. And besides, I could tell anywhere
the rattle of her main peak-blocks--they're too large for the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: There reigns in it gentleness and goodness;
and if a tinge of the world's pride or vanities
may mix with an expression so lovely, how
should we chide that which is of earth for bearing
some colour of its original? Long, long will I remember
your features, and bless God that I leave
my noble deliverer united with---''
She stopped short---her eyes filled with tears.
She hastily wiped them, and answered to the anxious
enquiries of Rowena---``I am well, lady---
well. But my heart swells when I think of Torquilstone
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