| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson: cheerful heart.
I was far from being a native of these parts, springing, as I did,
from an unmixed lowland stock. But an uncle of mine, Gordon
Darnaway, after a poor, rough youth, and some years at sea, had
married a young wife in the islands; Mary Maclean she was called,
the last of her family; and when she died in giving birth to a
daughter, Aros, the sea-girt farm, had remained in his possession.
It brought him in nothing but the means of life, as I was well
aware; but he was a man whom ill-fortune had pursued; he feared,
cumbered as he was with the young child, to make a fresh adventure
upon life; and remained in Aros, biting his nails at destiny.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: contrary direction, and we were told that in no part of the
world did rattlesnakes attain to such a monstrous bigness as
among the warm, flower-dotted rocks of Silverado. This is a
contribution rather to the natural history of the Hansons,
than to that of snakes.
One person, however, better served by his instinct, had known
the rattle from the first; and that was Chuchu, the dog. No
rational creature has ever led an existence more poisoned by
terror than that dog's at Silverado. Every whiz of the
rattle made him bound. His eyes rolled; he trembled; he
would be often wet with sweat. One of our great mysteries
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to the courtyard without mishap. Glancing up, he saw the
heads of three men peering from the window of the room
he had just quitted.
"There he is!" cried one, and instantly the three turned
back into the room. As Barney fled from the courtyard he
heard the rattle of hasty footsteps upon the rickety stairway
of the inn.
Choosing an alley rather than a street in which he might
run upon soldiers at any moment, he moved quickly yet
cautiously away from the inn. Behind him he could hear
the voices of many men. They were raised to a high pitch
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