| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: extreme haste. 'How am I to--'
'We shall overtake it,' he assured me. 'It will have kept the
road. Lectoure is no more than a league from here, and we can
give orders there to have these two fetched and buried.'
I had nothing to gain by demurring, and so, after another word or
two, it was arranged. We picked up what we had dropped, M. de
Cocheforet helped his sister to mount, and within five minutes we
were gone. Casting a glance back from the skirts of the wood I
fancied that I saw the masked man straighten himself and turn to
look after us, but the leaves were beginning to intervene, the
distance may have cheated me. And yet I was not indisposed to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: Nature and the animal and vegetable world around them
that (whenever they thought about these matters at all)
they never for a moment doubted that the things which
were happening all round them in the external world were
also happening within themselves. They saw the Sun,
overclouded and nigh to death in winter, come to its birth
again each year; they saw the Vegetation shoot forth
anew in spring--the revival of the spirit of the Earth;
the endless breeding of the Animals, the strange
transformations of Worms and Insects; the obviously new life
taken on by boys and girls at puberty; the same at a later
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: street was scarcely more than that of a dog or a chicken; and when he
finally disappeared, I did not miss him. Months and months passed by before
anything happened to remind me of Riki.
"What has become of Riki?" I then asked the old woodcutter who supplies
our neighborhood with fuel. I remembered that Riki had often helped him to
carry his bundles.
"Riki-Baka?" answered the old man. "Ah, Riki is dead -- poor fellow!...
Yes, he died nearly a year ago, very suddenly; the doctors said that he had
some disease of the brain. And there is a strange story now about that poor
Riki
"When Riki died, his mother wrote his name, 'Riki-Baka,' in the palm of
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