| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: before you get there, and you can pick out the Miss-
issippi without any trouble. Then you can follow the
river north nearly, an hour and three quarters, till you
see the Ohio come in; then you want to look sharp,
because you're getting near. Away up to your left
you'll see another thread coming in -- that's the
Missouri and is a little above St. Louis. You'll come
down low then, so as you can examine the villages as
you spin along. You'll pass about twenty-five in the
next fifteen minutes, and you'll recognize ours when
you see it -- and if you don't, you can yell down and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: was his, and so he gave his enemy these three chances to recover,
as some chevalier or knight- errant of romance might have done,
instead of pushing the combat to a mercifully speedy end-- and
his foolish generosity cost him dear.
In the momentary pause that had thus stirred the Earl of
Mackworth to a sudden outbreak, the Earl of Alban sat upon his
panting, sweating war- horse, facing his powerful young enemy at
about twelve paces distant. He sat as still as a rock, holding
his gisarm poised in front of him. He had, as the Earl of
Mackworth had said, been wounded twice, and each time with the
point of the sword, so much more dangerous than a direct cut with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling: in that hour, but her brother said that I had spared his life
- he said not how he saved mine from the Saxons - and
that our Duke had won the day; and even while they
wrangled over my poor body, of a sudden he fell down in
a swoon from his wounds.
"'This is thy fault," said the Lady Aelueva to me, and
she kneeled above him and called for wine and cloths.
"'If I had known," I answered, "he should have ridden
and I walked. But he set me on my horse; he made no
complaint; he walked beside me and spoke merrily
throughout. I pray I have done him no harm."
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