| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: extraordinarily distorting medium of local gossip, now as a
momentous jobber; now as a dupe to point an adage; and again,
and much more probably, as an ordinary Christian gentleman
like you or me, who had opened a mine and worked it for a
while with better and worse fortune. So, through a defective
window-pane, you may see the passer-by shoot up into a
hunchbacked giant or dwindle into a potbellied dwarf.
To Ronalds, at least, the mine belonged; but the notice by
which he held it would ran out upon the 30th of June - or
rather, as I suppose, it had run out already, and the month
of grace would expire upon that day, after which any American
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: cheeks smooth and fair; the eyes dark and blue. He was tall and
rather slight, and wore his thick yellow hair hanging to his
shoulders, where it was cut square across, after the manner of
the times. Myles did not need to be told that it was the Prince
of Wales.
"Ho, Gaffer Fox!" he cried, as soon as he caught sight of the
Earl of Mackworth, "what wind blows thee hither among us wild
mallard drakes? I warrant it is not for love of us, but only to
fill thine own larder after the manner of Sir Fox among the
drakes. Whom hast thou with thee? Some gosling thou art about to
pluck?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: While Ilion like a mist rose into towers.
Yet hold me not for ever in thine East:
How can my nature longer mix with thine?
Coldly thy rosy shadows bathe me, cold
Are all thy lights, and cold my wrinkled feet
Upon thy glimmering thresholds, when the steam
Floats up from those dim fields about the homes
Of happy men that have the power to die,
And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
Release me, and restore me to the ground;
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