| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: thousand infantry, and six or seven thousand cavalry, which
profanely assumed the title of God's army, had been hastily
assembled from the shires of Fife, Angus, Perth, Stirling, and
the neighbouring counties. A much less force in former times,
nay, even in the preceding reign, would have been sufficient to
have secured the Lowlands against a more formidable descent of
Highlanders, than those united under Montrose; but times had
changed strangely within the last half century. Before that
period, the Lowlanders were as constantly engaged in war as the
mountaineers, and were incomparably better disciplined and armed.
The favourite Scottish order of battle somewhat resembled the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: dancing and tricing up."
Wilbur ran back to the quarterdeck.
"This is a bad fix," he said to Moran. "Those chaps are coming
aboard again. They're on to something, and, of course, at just
this moment she begins to leak."
"They are after that ambergris," said Moran between her teeth.
"Smelled it, of course--the swine!"
"Ambergris?"
"The stuff we found in the whale. That's ambergris."
"Well?"
"Well!" shouted Moran, exasperated. "Do you know that we have
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: in a mighty fuss about his new acquaintance.
However, they were expert by this time in all the Indian's fishing
methods; and so abundant was the animal life which swarmed around
every rock, that in an hour fish enough lay on the beach to feed
them all; whose forms and colors, names and families, I must leave
the reader to guess from the wondrous pages of Sir Richard
Schomburgk, for I know too little of them to speak without the fear
of making mistakes.
A full hour passed before they saw anything more of their Indian
neighbors; and then from under the bushes shot out a canoe, on
which all eyes were fixed in expectation.
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