| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: of letters, the counsellor of warriors and statesmen, and the
confidant and advocate of William of Orange, Languet, Plessis du
Mornay, and all the Protestant leaders on the Continent; and found,
moreover, that the son of the poor Devon squire was as welcome as
ever to the friendship of nature's and fortune's most favored, yet
most unspoilt, minion.
Poor Mrs. Leigh, as one who had long since learned to have no self,
and to live not only for her children but in them, submitted
without a murmur, and only said, smiling, to her stern friend--"You
took away my mastiff-pup, and now you must needs have my fair
greyhound also."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: streaks of grey light edging the window curtains: dawn was then
approaching. Presently I heard Pilot bark far below, out of his
distant kennel in the courtyard: hope revived. Nor was it
unwarranted: in five minutes more the grating key, the yielding
lock, warned me my watch was relieved. It could not have lasted
more than two hours: many a week has seemed shorter.
Mr. Rochester entered, and with him the surgeon he had been to
fetch.
"Now, Carter, be on the alert," he said to this last: "I give you
but half-an-hour for dressing the wound, fastening the bandages,
getting the patient downstairs and all."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: she had been born in the wild forest far from their
haunts, her father maybe a renegade Fire-Man, her
mother maybe one of my own kind, one of the Folk. But
who shall say? These things are beyond me, and the
Swift One knew no more about them than did I.
We lived through a day of terror. Most of the
survivors fled toward the blueberry swamp and took
refuge in the forest in that neighborhood. And all day
hunting parties of the Fire People ranged the forest,
killing us wherever they found us. It must have been a
deliberately executed plan. Increasing beyond the
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