| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: French men-of-war and two English, with a privateer and three
merchant-ships in their company. The English had the misfortune,
not only to be fewer ships of war in number, but of less force; so
that while the two biggest French ships engaged the English, the
third in the meantime took the two merchant-ships and went off with
them. As to the picaroon or privateer, she was able to do little
in the matter, not daring to come so near the men-of-war as to take
a broadside, which her thin sides would not have been able to bear,
but would have sent her to the bottom at once; so that the English
men-of-war had no assistance from her, nor could she prevent the
taking the two merchant-ships. Yet we observed that the English
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ebb-Tide by Stevenson & Osbourne: gave him the letter. Attwater glanced it through.
'What does that mean?' he asked, passing it to Herrick.
'Treachery?'
'Oh, I suppose so!' said Herrick.
'Well, tell him to come on,' said Attwater. 'One isn't a fatalist
for nothing. Tell him to come on and to look out.'
Herrick returned to the figure-head. Half-way down the pier
the clerk was waiting, with Davis by his side.
'You are to come along, Huish,' said Herrick. 'He bids you
look out, no tricks.'
Huish walked briskly up the pier, and paused face to face
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: not seem to me good that they should brave danger and,
perhaps lessen their safety, strength being the best safety,
through care of me, but their minds were made up, and though
it was a bitter pill for me to swallow, I could say nothing,
save to accept their chivalrous care of me.
Mr. Morris resumed the discussion, "As there is no time
to lose, I vote we have a look at his house right now.
Time is everything with him, and swift action on our part
may save another victim."
I own that my heart began to fail me when the time for action
came so close, but I did not say anything, for I had a greater
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