| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: moving shadows, in an uncontrollable white fury. He slid from the
saddle, threw the reins over the horse's head to the ground, and
slipped his revolver from its holster and back to make sure that
he could draw it easily. Then he passed springily across the road
to the hotel and up the stairs. He trod lightly, stealthily, and
by his very wariness defeated his purpose of eluding observation.
For a pair of keen eyes from the hotel office glimpsed the figure
stealing past so noiselessly, and promptly followed up the
stairway.
"Hope I don't intrude at this happy family gathering."
Helen, who had been pouring a glass of cordial for the spent and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tour Through Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe: chief gentlemen of the garrison.
During this time, two troops of the Royal Horse sallied out in the
night, resolving to break out or die: the first rode up full gallop
to the enemy's horse guards on the side of Malden road, and
exchanged their pistols with the advanced troops, and wheeling made
as if they would retire to the town; but finding they were not
immediately pursued, they wheeled about to the right, and passing
another guard at a distance, without being perfectly discovered,
they went clean off, and passing towards Tiptree Heath, and having
good guides, they made their escape towards Cambridgeshire, in
which length of way they found means to disperse without being
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: as we see at the present day, that very many European productions cover the
ground in La Plata, and in a lesser degree in Australia, and have to a
certain extent beaten the natives; whereas extremely few southern forms
have become naturalised in any part of Europe, though hides, wool, and
other objects likely to carry seeds have been largely imported into Europe
during the last two or three centuries from La Plata, and during the last
thirty or forty years from Australia. Something of the same kind must have
occurred on the intertropical mountains: no doubt before the Glacial
period they were stocked with endemic Alpine forms; but these have almost
everywhere largely yielded to the more dominant forms, generated in the
larger areas and more efficient workshops of the north. In many islands
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