| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: my uncle's nephew, I would be found a careful lad."
"So ye have a spark of sleeness in ye?" observed the old lady, with
some approval. "I thought ye had just been a cuif - you and your
saxpence, and your LUCKY DAY and your SAKE OF BALWHIDDER" - from which
I was gratified to learn that Catriona had not forgotten some of our
talk. "But all this is by the purpose," she resumed. "Am I to
understand that ye come here keeping company?"
"This is surely rather an early question," said I. "The maid is young,
so am I, worse fortune. I have but seen her the once. I'll not deny,"
I added, making up my mind to try her with some frankness, "I'll not
deny but she has run in my head a good deal since I met in with her.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: If jewels rich thou diddest hold in prize,
Such store thereof, such plenty have I here,
As to a greedy mind might well suffice:"
With that down trickled many a silver tear,
Two crystal streams fell from her watery eyes;
Part of her sad misfortunes then she told,
And wept, and with her wept that shepherd old.
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With speeches kind, he gan the virgin dear
Toward his cottage gently home to guide;
His aged wife there made her homely cheer,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government,
and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once
an example and fit instrument for introducing the same
absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws,
and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves
invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection
and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns,
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