| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: breakfast laid out, with coffee kept hot by the pot being
placed on the hearth. There was a card on the table,
on which was written--"I have to be absent for a while.
Do not wait for me. D." I set to and enjoyed a hearty meal.
When I had done, I looked for a bell, so that I might let
the servants know I had finished, but I could not find one.
There are certainly odd deficiencies in the house, considering
the extraordinary evidences of wealth which are round me.
The table service is of gold, and so beautifully wrought
that it must be of immense value. The curtains and upholstery
of the chairs and sofas and the hangings of my bed are
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: me English customs, while I work. You will find me an apt
scholar, for my heart is in the task.' She laid her hand
lightly upon Harry's arm, and looked into his eyes. 'Do you
know,' said she, 'I am emboldened to believe that I have
already caught something of your English aplomb? Do you not
perceive a change, Senor? Slight, perhaps, but still a
change? Is my deportment not more open, more free, more like
that of the dear "British Miss" than when you saw me first?'
She gave a radiant smile; withdrew her hand from Harry's arm;
and before the young man could formulate in words the
eloquent emotions that ran riot through his brain - with an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Walden by Henry David Thoreau: -- do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature. Every
man has to learn the points of compass again as often as be awakes,
whether from sleep or any abstraction. Not till we are lost, in
other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find
ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our
relations.
One afternoon, near the end of the first summer, when I went to
the village to get a shoe from the cobbler's, I was seized and put
into jail, because, as I have elsewhere related, I did not pay a tax
to, or recognize the authority of, the State which buys and sells
men, women, and children, like cattle, at the door of its
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