| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: - from the first. And mind you, when a guide is required,' he
added, 'I know all the forest paths.'
Otto rode away, chuckling. This talk with Fritz had vastly
entertained him; nor was he altogether discontented with his bearing
at the farm; men, he was able to tell himself, had behaved worse
under smaller provocation. And, to harmonise all, the road and the
April air were both delightful to his soul.
Up and down, and to and fro, ever mounting through the wooded
foothills, the broad white high-road wound onward into Grunewald.
On either hand the pines stood coolly rooted - green moss
prospering, springs welling forth between their knuckled spurs; and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain: en de gutter. You has disgraced yo' birth. What would yo' pa
think o' you? It's enough to make him turn in his grave.
The last three sentences stung Tom into a fury, and he said to
himself that if his father were only alive and in reach of assassination
his mother would soon find that he had a very clear notion of the
size of his indebtedness to that man, and was willing to pay it
up in full, and would do it too, even at risk of his life;
but he kept this thought to himself; that was safest in his
mother's present state.
"Whatever has come o' yo' Essex blood? Dat's what I can't understan'.
En it ain't on'y jist Essex blood dat's in you, not by a long sight--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: heavily in loose folds of flesh on his chest. With an effort he
spoke again.
"They camped all round the house, everywhere, in the cotton, in the
corn. The pasture was blue with them. That night there were a
thousand campfires. They tore down the fences and burned them to
cook with and the barns and the stables and the smokehouse. They
killed the cows and the hogs and the chickens--even my turkeys."
Gerald's precious turkeys. So they were gone. "They took things,
even the pictures--some of the furniture, the china--"
"The silver?"
"Pork and Mammy did something with the silver--put it in the well--
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