| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: like a widow who remarries! The bustle of the old days will soon
begin with the blows of the pick, and mattock, blasts of powder,
rumbling of wagons, neighing of horses, creaking of machines!
I shall see it all again! I hope, Mr. Starr, that you will not think
me too old to résumé my duties of overman?"
"No, Simon, no indeed! You wear better than I do, my old friend!"
"And, sir, you shall be our viewer again. May the new working
last for many years, and pray Heaven I shall have the consolation
of dying without seeing the end of it!"
The old miner was overflowing with joy. James Starr fully
entered into it; but he let Ford rave for them both.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: quite up, calling to those behind to come along; and could also
hear them answer, and complain how lame and tired they were, and
not able to come any faster: which was very welcome news to us. At
length they came up to the boat: but it is impossible to express
their confusion when they found the boat fast aground in the creek,
the tide ebbed out, and their two men gone. We could hear them
call one to another in a most lamentable manner, telling one
another they were got into an enchanted island; that either there
were inhabitants in it, and they should all be murdered, or else
there were devils and spirits in it, and they should be all carried
away and devoured. They hallooed again, and called their two
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: you shall not be the sacrifice--I will fall myself with the
consciousness I leave you happy--My child may weep on my grave,
but she shall not--not in this instance--reproach my memory." He
called a servant.--"Go, bid Ratcliffe come hither directly."
During this interval, Miss Vere became deadly pale, clenched her
hands, pressing the palms strongly together, closed her eyes, and
drew her lips with strong compression, as if the severe
constraint which she put upon her internal feelings extended even
to her muscular organization. Then raising her head, and drawing
in her breath strongly ere she spoke, she said, with firmness,
--"Father, I consent to the marriage."
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