| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: to Mareschal; "but I believe it is all for the best; at all
events, we cannot now retreat from our undertaking. One man
alone" (looking at Ratcliffe) "has refused the pledge; but of
that by and by."
Then, rising up, he addressed the company in a style of
inflammatory invective against the government and its measures,
but especially the Union; a treaty, by means of which, he
affirmed, Scotland had been at once cheated of her independence,
her commerce, and her honour, and laid as a fettered slave at the
foot of the rival against whom, through such a length of ages,
through so many dangers, and by so much blood, she had honourably
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: forgotten interview in San Francisco with Senora Estrada, the
agent of the insurgents; of the incident of her calling-card--how
she tore it in two and gave one-half to Isham; of their
outfitting, and the broken sextant that was to cause their
ultimate discomfiture and disaster, and of the voyage to the
rendezvous on a Panama liner.
"Strike me!" continued Captain Jack, "you should have seen Billy
Isham on that Panama dough-dish; a passenger ship she was, and
Billy was the life of her from stem to stern-post. There was a
church pulpit aboard that they were taking down to Mazatlan for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: now, since ye go to the great wars about the king, and I continue
to dwell here in extreme jeopardy of my life, and the saints alone
can certify if we shall meet again below, I give you my last
counsels now at your riding. Keep an eye on Sir Daniel; he is
unsure. Put not your trust in the jack-priest; he intendeth not
amiss, but doth the will of others; it is a hand-gun for Sir
Daniel! Get your good lordship where ye go; make you strong
friends; look to it. And think ever a pater-noster-while on Bennet
Hatch. There are worse rogues afoot than Bennet. So, God-speed!"
"And Heaven be with you, Bennet!" returned Dick. "Ye were a good
friend to me-ward, and so I shall say ever."
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