| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: for the Dauphin, to which meeting he had summoned a number of his
own more important dependent nobles, that the King himself needed
repose and the hour or so of rest that his barber- surgeon had
ordered him to take after his mid-day meal; that Father Thomas
had laid upon Myles a petty penance--that for the first three
days of his knighthood he should eat his meals without meat and
in his own apartment--and various other reasons equally good and
sufficient. So the King was satisfied, and the feast was
dispensed with.
The next morning had been set for the jousting, and all that day
the workmen were busy erecting the lists in the great quadrangle
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: your king?" she asked.
"Troth," said I, "my affection for my king, God bless the puggy face of
him, is under more control; and I thought I saw death so near to me
this day already, that I am rather taken up with the notion of living."
"Right," she said, "the right mind of a man! Only you must learn arms;
I would not like to have a friend that cannot strike. But it will not
have been with the sword that you killed these two?"
"Indeed, no," said I, "but with a pair of pistols. And a fortunate
thing it was the men were so near-hand to me, for I am about as clever
with the pistols as I am with the sword."
So then she drew from me the story of our battle in the brig, which I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: "Stephanie! Stephanie!"
The young woman opened her eyes.
"Madame! we are saved."
"Saved!" she repeated, sinking down again.
The horses were harnessed as best they could. The major, holding his
sabre in his well hand, with his pistols in his belt, gathered up the
reins with the other hand and mounted one horse while the grenadier
mounted the other. The orderly, whose feet were frozen, was thrown
inside the carriage, across the general and the countess. Excited by
pricks from a sabre, the horses drew the carriage rapidly, with a sort
of fury, to the plain, where innumerable obstacles awaited it. It was
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