| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: was perhaps unusually silent; but there were hours of the night which
might be counted on as opportunities of conversation; for Dorothea,
when aware of her husband's sleeplessness, had established a habit
of rising, lighting a candle, and reading him to sleep again. And this
night she was from the beginning sleepless, excited by resolves.
He slept as usual for a few hours, but she had risen softly and had
sat in the darkness for nearly an hour before he said--
"Dorothea, since you are up, will you light a candle?"
"Do you feel ill, dear?" was her first question, as she obeyed him.
"No, not at all; but I shall be obliged, since you are up, if you
will read me a few pages of Lowth."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: run an' get the dish-pan!"
JAN, THE UNREPENTANT
"For there's never a law of God or man
Runs north of Fifty-three."
Jan rolled over, clawing and kicking. He was fighting hand and
foot now, and he fought grimly, silently. Two of the three men
who hung upon him, shouted directions to each other, and strove to
curb the short, hairy devil who would not curb. The third man
howled. His finger was between Jan's teeth.
"Quit yer tantrums, Jan, an' ease up!" panted Red Bill, getting a
strangle-hold on Jan's neck. "Why on earth can't yeh hang decent
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: fixing it on the rock. The mooring of the floating light was
a great point gained, but in the erection of the beacon at
this late period of the season new difficulties presented
themselves. The success of such an undertaking at any season
was precarious, because a single day of bad weather occurring
before the necessary fixtures could be made might sweep the
whole apparatus from the rock. Notwithstanding these
difficulties, the writer had determined to make the trial,
although he could almost have wished, upon looking at the
state of the clouds and the direction of the wind, that the
apparatus for the beacon had been still in the workyard.
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