| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: mine. I trust you will not suffer moments, which are perhaps my
last, to be embittered by his barbarous triumph."
"He shall have the treatment he merits," said Menteith; "let him
be instantly removed."
Sir Dugald here interposed, and spoke of Ranald's services as a
guide, and his own pledge for his safety; but the high harsh
tones of the outlaw drowned his voice.
"No," said he, "be rack and gibbet the word! let me wither
between heaven and earth, and gorge the hawks and eagles of Ben-
Nevis; and so shall this haughty Knight, and this triumphant
Thane, never learn the secret I alone can impart; a secret which
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: shaver when he first hit this country. When you fellers was his
age, you wa'n't dry behind the ears yet. He never was no kid.
He was born a full-grown man. An' I tell you a man had to be a
man in them days. This wa'n't no effete civilization like it's
come to be now." Bettles paused long enough to put his arm in
a proper bear-hug around Daylight's neck. "When you an' me
mushed into the Yukon in the good ole days, it didn't rain
soup and they wa'n't no free-lunch joints. Our camp fires was
lit where we killed our game, and most of the time we lived on
salmon-tracks and rabbit-bellies--ain't I right?"
But at the roar of laughter that greeted his inversion, Bettles
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: cellar to Derues, or the creditor who had met him taking his cask
of wine there, had informed the investigating magistrate, seems
uncertain. In any case, the corpse of the unhappy lady was soon
brought to light and Derues confronted with it. At first he said
that he failed to recognise it as the remains of Mme. de Lamotte,
but he soon abandoned that rather impossible attitude. He
admitted that he had given some harmless medicine to Mme. de
Lamotte during her illness, and then, to his horror, one morning
had awakened to find her dead. A fear lest her husband would
accuse him of having caused her death had led him to conceal the
body, and also that of her son who, he now confessed, had died
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