| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: drame du coeur."
He doffed his hat and bowed, his fair ringlets tumbling forward till
they hid his face, which was exceeding grave.
Ruth gave him good morning pleasantly. "You London folk are earlier
risers than we are led to think," she added.
"`Twill be the change of air makes Sir Rowland matutinal," said Diana,
making a gallant recovery from her agitation.
"I vow," said he, "that I had grown matutinal earlier had I known what
here awaited me."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving: It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was
clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery
which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests
had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the
tenderer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes
of orange, purple, and scarlet. Streaming files of wild ducks
began to make their appearance high in the air; the bark of the
squirrel might be heard from the groves of beech and hickory-
nuts, and the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the
neighboring stubble field.
The small birds were taking their farewell banquets. In the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: feel pretty rocky and mean."
We had thoroughly cleared out the three after-compartments of
the ship: all the stuff from the main cabin and the mate's and
captain's quarters lay piled about the wheel; but in the forward
stateroom with the two bunks, where Nares had said the mate
and cook most likely berthed, we had as yet done nothing.
Thither I went. It was very bare; a few photographs were
tacked on the bulkhead, one of them indecent; a single chest
stood open, and, like all we had yet found, it had been partly
rifled. An armful of two-shilling novels proved to me beyond a
doubt it was a European's; no Chinaman would have possessed
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