| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen: go to? Do you know anything about it?"
"She is no doubt gone to Lapland; for there is always snow and ice there. Only
ask the Reindeer, who is tethered there."
"Ice and snow is there! There it is, glorious and beautiful!" said the
Reindeer. "One can spring about in the large shining valleys! The Snow Queen
has her summer-tent there; but her fixed abode is high up towards the North
Pole, on the Island called Spitzbergen."
"Oh, Kay! Poor little Kay!" sighed Gerda.
"Do you choose to be quiet?" said the robber maiden. "If you don't, I shall
make you."
In the morning Gerda told her all that the Wood-pigeons had said; and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: patience; but I felt a natural desire, if possible, to correct
what I conceive to be a groundless imputation on the memory of my
ancestor, before it shall come to be considered as a matter of
History. That he was a man of violent passions and singular
temper, I do not pretend to deny, as many traditions still
current in this country amply verify; but that he was capable of
forming a design to assassinate Montrose, the whole tenor of his
former conduct and principles contradict. That he was obliged to
join the opposite party, was merely a matter of safety, while
Kilpont had so many powerful friends and connexions able and
ready to avenge his death.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: over there last night. If a man's attacked, he generally calls for
help; it's a queer business all right."
"Well, Sultan, why didn't you make a noise?" asked Muller, patting
the dog's broad head. Sultan growled and walked on indifferently,
after he had shaken off the strange hand.
"He must have slept more soundly than usual. He went off into the
country with me yesterday. We had an errand to do there and on the
way back we stopped in for a drink. Sultan takes a drop or two
himself occasionally, and that usually makes him sleep. I had hard
work to bring him home. We got here just a few minutes before
half-past nine and I tell you we were both good and tired."
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