The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: manners he possessed deserted him; and he behaved himself so scandalous
to the young lady, jesting most ill-favouredly at the figure she had
made on the ship's rail, that I had no resource but carry her suddenly
away.
She came out of the ordinary clinging to me close. "Take me away,
David," she said. "YOU keep me. I am not afraid with you."
"And have no cause, my little friend!" cried I, and could have found it
in my heart to weep.
"Where will you be taking me?" she said again. "Don't leave me at all
events - never leave me."
"Where am I taking you to?" says I stopping, for I had been staving on
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde: evidently a deputation," said the Rocket; "I will receive them with
becoming dignity" so he put his nose in the air, and began to frown
severely as if he were thinking about some very important subject.
But they took no notice of him at all till they were just going
away. Then one of them caught sight of him. "Hallo!" he cried,
"what a bad rocket!" and he threw him over the wall into the ditch.
"BAD Rocket? BAD Rocket?" he said, as he whirled through the air;
"impossible! GRAND Rocket, that is what the man said. BAD and
GRAND sound very much the same, indeed they often are the same";
and he fell into the mud.
"It is not comfortable here," he remarked, "but no doubt it is some
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: for the poor thoats, and before I left the community of
Lorquas Ptomel I had the satisfaction of observing a regiment
of as tractable and docile mounts as one might care to
see. The effect on the precision and celerity of the military
movements was so remarkable that Lorquas Ptomel presented
me with a massive anklet of gold from his own leg, as a sign
of his appreciation of my service to the horde.
On the seventh day following the battle with the air craft
we again took up the march toward Thark, all probability of
another attack being deemed remote by Lorquas Ptomel.
During the days just preceding our departure I had seen
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