| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: That of Colonel Douglas Ashton was mingled with resentment; that
of Bucklaw with haughty and affected indifference; the rest, even
Lady Ashton herself, showed signs of fear; and Lucy seemed
stiffened to stone by this unexpected apparition. Apparition it
might well be termed, for Ravenswood had more the appearance of
one returned from the dead than of a living visitor.
He planted himself full in the middle of the apartment, opposite
to the table at which Lucy was seated, on whom, as if she had
been alone in the chamber, he bent his eyes with a mingled
expression of deep grief and deliberate indignation. His dark-
coloured riding cloak, displaced from one shoulder, hung around
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: MOERIS
O Lycidas,
We have lived to see, what never yet we feared,
An interloper own our little farm,
And say, "Be off, you former husbandmen!
These fields are mine." Now, cowed and out of heart,
Since Fortune turns the whole world upside down,
We are taking him- ill luck go with the same!-'
These kids you see.
LYCIDAS
But surely I had heard
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: swollen, his eyes were red. His sister called in the evening,
but could not see him. The servants told her that her brother
was a little better but resting, and that he did not wish to be
disturbed; they said that Dr. Castaing had been with him all day.
On Friday Castaing himself called on the Martignons, and told
them that Hippolyte had passed a shockingly bad night. Madame
Martignon insisted on going to nurse her brother herself, but
Castaing refused positively to let her see him; the sight of her,
he said, would be too agitating to the patient. Later in the day
Mme. Martignon went to her brother's house. In order to obey Dr.
Castaing's injunctions, she dressed herself in some of the
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