| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: quarters at Dunbarton, where he was soon joined by a considerable
force, consisting chiefly of his own clansmen and dependants.
Being there joined by Baillie and Urrie, with a very considerable
army of regular forces, he prepared to march into Argyleshire,
and chastise the invader of his paternal territories.
But Montrose, while these two formidable armies were forming a
junction, had been recalled from that ravaged country by the
approach of a third, collected in the north under the Earl of
Seaforth, who, after some hesitation, having embraced the side of
the Covenanters, had now, with the assistance of the veteran
garrison of Inverness, formed a considerable army, with which he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber: one inch above his head. In a town like ours the Haley House is
like a big, hospitable clubhouse. The men drop in there the first
thing in the morning, and the last thing at night, to hear the
gossip and buy a cigar and jolly the girl at the cigar counter.
Ted spoke to them when they spoke to him. He began to develop a
certain grim line about the mouth. Jo Haley watched him from afar,
and the longer he watched the kinder and more speculative grew the
look in his eyes. And slowly and surely there grew in the hearts
of our townspeople a certain new respect and admiration for this
boy who was fighting his fight.
Ted got into the habit of taking his meals late, so that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: "You ought to have been there, Mr. Longueville," Blanche went on.
"We have had a most lovely night; we sat all the evening on
Mrs. Vivian's balcony, eating ices. To sit on a balcony, eating ices--
that 's my idea of heaven."
"With an angel by your side," said Captain Lovelock.
"You are not my idea of an angel," retorted Blanche.
"I 'm afraid you 'll never learn what the angels are really like,"
said the Captain. "That 's why Miss Evers got Mrs. Vivian to take
rooms over the baker's--so that she could have ices sent up several
times a day. Well, I 'm bound to say the baker's ices are not bad."
"Considering that they have been baked! But they affect the mind,"
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