| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: under the weight of Mr. B- coming on board for good at last.
On the rail his burly form would stop and stand swaying.
"Watchman!"
"Sir."
A pause.
He waited for a moment of steadiness before negotiating the three
steps of the inside ladder from rail to deck; and the watchman,
taught by experience, would forbear offering help which would be
received as an insult at that particular stage of the mate's
return. But many times I trembled for his neck. He was a heavy
man.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: wish to
see you keeping company with fools who walk in the broad and easy
way that
leads to perdition."
"It is rather a hard choice," said the young man, with a short
laugh,
turning toward the door. "According to you there's very little
difference--a fool's paradise or a fool's hell! Well, it's one
or
the other for me, and I'll toss up for it to-night: heads, I
lose;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: do? Only tell me that.'
With signs of an emotion that was certainly unfeigned, the
fair Cuban laid her hand upon the box. 'This box,' she said,
'contains my jewels, papers, and clothes; all, in a word,
that still connects me with Cuba and my dreadful past. They
must now be smuggled out of England; or, by the opinion of my
lawyer, I am lost beyond remedy. To-morrow, on board the
Irish packet, a sure hand awaits the box: the problem still
unsolved, is to find some one to carry it as far as Holyhead,
to see it placed on board the steamer, and instantly return
to town. Will you be he? Will you leave to-morrow by the
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