| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: to have continued to assist with more amiability than wisdom. He
hunted, belonged to the Yeomanry, owned famous horses, Maggie and
Lucy, the latter coveted by royalty itself. 'Lord Rokeby, his
neighbour, called him kinsman,' writes my artless chronicler, 'and
altogether life was very cheery.' At Stowting his three sons,
John, Charles, and Thomas Frewen, and his younger daughter, Anna,
were all born to him; and the reader should here be told that it is
through the report of this second Charles (born 1801) that he has
been looking on at these confused passages of family history.
In the year 1805 the ruin of the Jenkins was begun. It was the
work of a fallacious lady already mentioned, Aunt Anne Frewen, a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: forced stiff bow, in the impatient yet formal tone, which seemed
further to express, "What the deuce is it to me whether Miss Eyre be
there or not? At this moment I am not disposed to accost her."
I sat down quite disembarrassed. A reception of finished politeness
would probably have confused me: I could not have returned or
repaid it by answering grace and elegance on my part; but harsh
caprice laid me under no obligation; on the contrary, a decent
quiescence, under the freak of manner, gave me the advantage.
Besides, the eccentricity of the proceeding was piquant: I felt
interested to see how he would go on.
He went on as a statue would, that is, he neither spoke nor moved.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: lowland bred, poor fallow, and soon frighted for himsell--And,
for the worricows, were we to meet ane on this very bit--"
"As is not unlikely," said young Earnscliff, "for there stands
your old witch, Hobbie."
"I say," continued Elliot, as if indignant at this hint--"I say,
if the auld carline hersell was to get up out o' the grund just
before us here, I would think nae mair--But, gude preserve us,
Earnscliff; what can yon, be!"
CHAPTER III.
Brown Dwarf, that o'er the moorland strays,
Thy name to Keeldar tell!
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