| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: becoming. He was no more anxious to insure his own reputation as a
liar than to uphold the truthfulness of his companion; and he seemed
unaware of what was incongruous in his attitude, and was plainly
sincere in both characters.
It was not surprising that he should take an interest in the
Devonian, for the lad worshipped and served him in love and wonder.
Busy as he was, he would find time to warn Alick of an approaching
officer, or even to tell him that the coast was clear, and he might
slip off and smoke a pipe in safety. 'Tom,' he once said to him, for
that was the name which Alick ordered him to use, 'if you don't like
going to the galley, I'll go for you. You ain't used to this kind of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: brook resting passively under a wrong; he would endure no longer,
and now or never they must make their stand.
"But look thee, Myles Falworth," said Gascoyne, "all this is not
to be done withouten fighting shrewdly. Wilt thou take that
fighting upon thine own self? As for me, I tell thee I love it
not."
"Why, aye," said Myles; "I ask no man to do what I will not do
myself."
Gascoyne shrugged his shoulders. "So be it," said he. "An thou
hast appetite to run thy head against hard knocks, do it i'
mercy's name! I for one will stand thee back while thou art
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: To turn fiercely round on the speaker, but yet
To a trite and irreverent compliment set!
XVIII.
Slowly, slowly, usurping that place in his soul
Where the thought of Lucile was enshrined, did there roll
Back again, back again, on its smooth downward course
O'er his nature, with gather'd momentum and force,
THE WORLD.
XIX.
"No!" he mutter'd, "she cannot have sinn'd!
True! women there are (self-named women of mind!)
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