| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: industrious insects who catch up and reproduce the handling of each
emergent man - but I'll still hope it was yours - and hope it may
please you to hear that the continuation of KIDNAPPED is under way.
I have not yet got to Alan, so I do not know if he is still alive,
but David seems to have a kick or two in his shanks. I was pleased
to see how the Anglo-Saxon theory fell into the trap: I gave my
Lowlander a Gaelic name, and even commented on the fact in the
text; yet almost all critics recognised in Alan and David a Saxon
and a Celt. I know not about England; in Scotland at least, where
Gaelic was spoken in Fife little over the century ago, and in
Galloway not much earlier, I deny that there exists such a thing as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: one clear matter in our favour. They'll be all arranged to take us,
that's true. But they'll have arranged for our coming from the east
and here we are upon their west."
"Ay," says Alan, "I wish we were in some force, and this was a battle,
we would have bonnily out-manoeuvred them! But it isnae, Davit; and
the way it is, is a wee thing less inspiring to Alan Breck. I swither,
Davie."
"Time flies, Alan," said I.
"I ken that," said Alan. "I ken naething else, as the French folk say.
But this is a dreidful case of heids or tails. O! if I could but ken
where your gentry were!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: MAT 25:10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they
that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
MAT 25:11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord,
open to us.
MAT 25:12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you
not.
MAT 25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour
wherein the Son of man cometh.
MAT 25:14 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far
country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
MAT 25:15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to
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