| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne: up.
And it must be confessed that the sailor's arguments were reasonable.
Towards half-past one, the colonists embarked in the boat to visit the
wreck. It was to be regretted that the brig's two boats had not been saved;
but one, as has been said, had gone to pieces at the mouth of the Mercy,
and was absolutely useless; the other had disappeared when the brig went
down, and had not again been seen, having doubtless been crushed.
The hull of the "Speedy" was just beginning to issue from the water. The
brig was lying right over on her side, for her masts being broken, pressed
down by the weight of the ballast displaced by the shock, the keel was
visible along her whole length. She had been regularly turned over by the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: there thinks that he can cure 'm."
Concerning that night's ride, the man spoke most eloquently for
himself, in a little shed back of a saloon on the San Francisco
water front.
"All I get is fifty for it," he grumbled; "an' I wouldn't do it
over for a thousand, cold cash."
His hand was wrapped in a bloody handkerchief, and the right
trouser leg was ripped from knee to ankle.
"How much did the other mug get?" the saloon-keeper demanded.
"A hundred," was the reply. "Wouldn't take a sou less, so help
me."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: he cried, "it would mean utter ruin to you if that letter reached
Whitehall."
"I realize it; but my mind is easy. I have her promise."
"A woman's promise!" snorted Trenchard, and proceeded with great
circumstance of expletives to damn "everything that daggled a petticoat."
"Your fears are idle," Wilding assured him. "What she says, she will do."
"And her brother?" quoth Trenchard. "Have you bethought you of that
canary-bird? He'll know the letter's whereabouts. He has cause to fear
you more than ever now. Are you sure he'll not be making use of it to
lay you by the heels?"
Mr. Wilding smiled upon the fury provoked by Trenchard's concern and
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