| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson: beggar, though he usually allowed his coat and his shoes (which
were open-mouthed, indeed) to beg for him. He was the wreck of an
athletic man, tall, gaunt, and bronzed; far gone in consumption,
with that disquieting smile of the mortally stricken on his face;
but still active afoot, still with the brisk military carriage, the
ready military salute. Three ways led through this piece of
country; and as I was inconstant in my choice, I believe he must
often have awaited me in vain. But often enough, he caught me;
often enough, from some place of ambush by the roadside, he would
spring suddenly forth in the regulation attitude, and launching at
once into his inconsequential talk, fall into step with me upon my
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: glass. He had miles of it at Wrenfield--his big kitchen-garden
was surrounded by blinking battalions of green-houses. And in
nearly all of them melons were grown--early melons and late,
French, English, domestic--dwarf melons and monsters: every
shape, colour and variety. They were petted and nursed like
children--a staff of trained attendants waited on them. I'm not
sure they didn't have a doctor to take their temperature--at any
rate the place was full of thermometers. And they didn't sprawl
on the ground like ordinary melons; they were trained against the
glass like nectarines, and each melon hung in a net which
sustained its weight and left it free on all sides to the sun and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: defence than ostentation.
Delighted with the partial glimpses which he obtained of the
castle through the woods and glades by which this ancient feudal
fortress was surrounded, our military traveller was determined to
inquire whether it might not deserve a nearer view, and whether
it contained family pictures or other objects of curiosity worthy
of a stranger's visit, when, leaving the vicinity of the park, he
rolled through a clean and well-paved street, and stopped at the
door of a well-frequented inn.
Before ordering horses, to proceed on his journey, General Browne
made inquiries concerning the proprietor of the chateau which had
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