| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: on a pleasant bank of the Trent, with only a solitary squire,
who still clung to the shadow of preferment, because he did
not see at the moment any better chance of the substance.
The knight did not despair because of the desertion of his followers:
he was well aware that he could easily raise recruits if he could
once find trace of his game; he, therefore, rode about indefatigably
over hill and dale, to the great sharpening of his own appetite
and that of his squire, living gallantly from inn to inn when
his purse was full, and quartering himself in the king's name
on the nearest ghostly brotherhood when it happened to be empty.
An autumn and a winter had passed away, when the course of his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Yates Pride by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: A gardener, with a boy assistant, was at work in the grounds when
Eudora entered. He touched his cap. He was an old man who had
lived with the Lancasters ever since Eudora could remember. He
advanced toward her now. "Sha'n't Tommy push--the baby-carriage
up to the house for you, Miss Eudora?" he said, in his cracked
old voice.
Eudora flushed slightly, and, as if in response, the old man
flushed, also. "No, I thank you, Wilson," she said, and moved on.
The boy, who was raking dry leaves, stood gazing at them with a
shrewd, whimsical expression. He was the old man's grandson.
"Is that a boy or a girl kid, grandpa?" he inquired, when the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: by an arrogant sneer of contempt.
The great ruffian paused, then stopped, slowly a
sheepish smile overspread his countenance and going
upon one knee he took the hand of Norman of Torn and
kissed it, as some great and loyal noble knight might
have kissed his king's hand in proof of his love and
fealty. There was a certain rude, though chivalrous
grandeur in the act; and it marked not only the begin-
ning of a lifelong devotion and loyalty on the part of
Shandy toward his young master, but was prophetic of
the attitude which Norman of Torn was to inspire in
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