| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: would make Ardenvohr's heart leap with joy, were he in the death
agony, and which the Earl of Menteith would purchase at the price
of his broad earldom.--Come hither, Annot Lyle," he said, raising
himself with unexpected strength; "fear not the sight of him to
whom thou hast clung in infancy. Tell these proud men, who
disdain thee as the issue of mine ancient race, that thou art no
blood of ours,--no daughter of the race of the Mist, but born in
halls as lordly, and cradled on couch as soft, as ever soothed
infancy in their proudest palaces."
"In the name of God," said Menteith, trembling with emotion, "if
you know aught of the birth of this lady, do thy conscience the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: Dominic went ashore to look for him, but returned at the end of two
hours alone and very angry, as I could see by the token of the
invisible smile under his moustache being intensified. We wondered
what had become of the wretch, and made a hurried investigation
amongst our portable property. He had stolen nothing.
"He will be back before long," I said confidently.
Ten minutes afterwards one of the men on deck called out loudly:
"I can see him coming."
Cesar had only his shirt and trousers on. He had sold his coat,
apparently for pocket-money.
"You knave!" was all Dominic said, with a terrible softness of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: that morning I perceived Cesar stretched out full length on the
deck near the foremast and wondered where he had been skulking till
then. But he might in truth have been at my elbow all the time for
all I knew. We had been too absorbed in watching our fate to pay
attention to each other. Nobody had eaten anything that morning,
but the men had been coming constantly to drink at the water-butt.
I ran down to the cabin. I had there, put away in a locker, ten
thousand francs in gold of whose presence on board, so far as I was
aware, not a soul, except Dominic had the slightest inkling. When
I emerged on deck again Dominic had turned about and was peering
from under his cowl at the coast. Cape Creux closed the view
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