| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: trembling hand the nasturtiums and sprays of clematis that
clambered over the trellis at his window. Suddenly, he felt
an arm thrown around his body, and a well-known voice behind
him exclaimed, "Father -- dear father!"
The old man uttered a cry, and turned round; then, seeing
his son, he fell into his arms, pale and trembling.
"What ails you, my dearest father? Are you ill?" inquired
the young man, much alarmed.
"No, no, my dear Edmond -- my boy -- my son! -- no; but I
did not expect you; and joy, the surprise of seeing you so
suddenly -- Ah, I feel as if I were going to die."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: But Mrs. Dyson was thoroughly happy in driving her husband about
in a buggy among bears and creeks. She did not know fear and
loved danger: "My husband loved me and I loved him, and in his
company and in driving him about in this wild kind of fashion I
derived much pleasure." However, Mr. Dyson's health broke down,
and he was obliged to return to England. It was at Darnall that
the fatal acquaintance with Peace began. Living next door
but one to the Dysons, Peace took the opportunity of introducing
himself, and Mr. Dyson "being a gentleman," took polite notice of
his advances. He became a constant visitor at the house. But
after a time Peace began to show that he was not the gentleman
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: take up and to return experienced seamen. On the outlying
islands the clergy lived isolated, thinking other thoughts,
dwelling in a different country from their parishioners, like
missionaries in the South Seas. My grandfather's unrivalled
treasury of anecdote was never written down; it embellished
his talk while he yet was, and died with him when he died; and
such as have been preserved relate principally to the islands
of Ronaldsay and Sanday, two of the Orkney group. These
bordered on one of the water-highways of civilisation; a great
fleet passed annually in their view, and of the shipwrecks of
the world they were the scene and cause of a proportion wholly
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