| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: printing the thick hoarfrost. A scathing breeze blew out of
the north-east and slowly carried a regiment of black and
tattered clouds over the face of heaven, which was already
kindled with the wild light of morning, but where she walked,
in shelter of the ruins, the flame of her candle burned
steady. The extreme cold smote upon her conscience. She
could not bear to think this bitter business fell usually to
the lot of one so old as Jonathan, and made desperate
resolutions to be earlier in the future.
The fire was a good blaze before he entered, limping dismally
into the kitchen. 'Nance,' said he, 'I be all knotted up
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum: Stones or of People," said the Prince.
"Well, what then?"
"Here is another person descended from the air to prove you were wrong."
"One person cannot be called 'people,'" said the Sorcerer. "If two
should come out of the sky you might with justice say I was wrong; but
unless more than this one appears I will hold that I was right."
"Very clever," said the Wizard, nodding his head as if pleased. "I am
delighted to find humbugs inside the earth, just the same as on top of
it. Were you ever with a circus, brother?"
"No," said the Sorcerer.
"You ought to join one," declared the little man seriously. "I belong
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: much expect to find them, as the Basuto had said that they had
gone over these hills, but either he lied or they had moved back
again.
Not half a mile from the river bank, just as I was about to
dismount to stalk a fine waterbuck of which I caught sight
standing among some coarse grass and bushes, my eye fell upon
buffalo spoor that from its appearance I knew could not be more
than a few hours old. Evidently the beasts had been feeding here
during the night and at dawn had moved away to sleep in the dry
bush nearer the hills. Beckoning to Anscombe, who fortunately
had not seen the waterbuck, at which he would certainly have
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