| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: unapparent.' You may think you know the figure of these hills; but
when they are thus revealed, they belong no longer to the things of
earth - meteors we should rather call them, appearances of sun and
air that endure but for a moment and return no more. Other
variations are more lasting, as when, for instance, heavy and wet
snow has fallen through some windless hours, and the thin, spiry,
mountain pine trees stand each stock-still and loaded with a shining
burthen. You may drive through a forest so disguised, the tongue-
tied torrent struggling silently in the cleft of the ravine, and all
still except the jingle of the sleigh bells, and you shall fancy
yourself in some untrodden northern territory - Lapland, Labrador, or
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: him to be in her power.
In her kind schemes for Elizabeth, she sometimes planned her
marrying colonel Fitzwilliam. He was beyond comparison the
most pleasant man; he certainly admired her, and his situation in
life was most eligible; but, to counterbalance these advantages,
Mr. Darcy had considerable patronage in the church, and his
cousin could have none at all.
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More than once did Elizabeth, in her ramble within the park,
unexpectedly meet Mr. Darcy. She felt all the perverseness of
the mischance that should bring him where no one else was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: Here charge the sterling like a bull;
There, as a man might wipe his face,
Lie, pleased and panting, in a pool.
But what, my Dew, in idle mood,
What prate I, minding not my debt?
What do I talk of bad or good?
The best is still a cigarette.
Me whether evil fate assault,
Or smiling providences crown -
Whether on high the eternal vault
Be blue, or crash with thunder down -
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