| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: "Oh, I don't remember how he looked," said Betty. She did remember, but would
not admit it.
The conversation drifted into other channels after this, and soon twilight
came stealing down on them. As Betty rose to go there came a hurried tap on
the door.
"I wonder who would knock like that," said Lydia, rising "Betty, wait a moment
while I open the door."
On doing this she discovered Clarke standing on the step with his cap in his
hand.
"Why, Mr. Clarke! Will you come in?" exclaimed Lydia. "Thank you, only for a
moment," said Alfred. "I cannot stay. I came to find Betty. Is she here?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: question concerning the primacy of the Pope, turned his arms
unexpectedly against me, and completely overthrew the plan for
peace. Meanwhile Charles Miltitz was waiting, disputations were
held, judges were being chosen, but no decision was arrived at.
And no wonder! for by the falsehoods, pretences, and arts of
Eccius the whole business was brought into such thorough
disorder, confusion, and festering soreness, that, whichever way
the sentence might lean, a greater conflagration was sure to
arise; for he was seeking, not after truth, but after his own
credit. In this case too I omitted nothing which it was right
that I should do.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: who was apt to feel discontent and to be averse to changing
his quarters, especially to work with the millwrights and
joiners at the rock, who often, for hours together, wrought
knee-deep, and not unfrequently up to the middle, in water.
Mr. Watt having about this time made a requisition for another
hand, the carpenter was ordered to attend the rock in the
floating light's boat. This he did with great reluctance, and
found so much fault that he soon got into discredit with his
messmates. On this occasion he left the Lighthouse service,
and went as a sailor in a vessel bound for America - a step
which, it is believed, he soon regretted, as, in the course of
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