| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: hear what I have to say."
"Well done, Harry! that's how I like to be spoken to!
Let's settle, then, that, before you marry Nell, she shall go
to school in Auld Reekie."
"No indeed, Jack; I am perfectly able myself to educate the person
who is to be my wife."
"Sure that will be a great deal better, Harry!"
"But, first of all," resumed Harry, "I wish that Nell should
gain a real knowledge of the upper world. To illustrate
my meaning, Jack, suppose you were in love with a blind girl,
and someone said to you, 'In a month's time her sight will
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: loves nor esteems me, shall I love him without return? If his
beauty allures my eyes, and my eyes listen to the call, shall I
say that I love him just for that? Nay, for that would be a lie.
Therefore, he has no ground for complaint, nor can I make any
claim against him. One cannot love with the eyes alone. What
crime, then, have my eyes committed, if their glance but follows
my desire? What is their fault and what their sin? Ought I to
blame them, then? Nay, verily. Who, then, should be blamed?
Surely myself, who have them in control. My eye glances at
nothing unless it gives my heart delight. My heart ought not to
have any desire which would give me pain. Yet its desire causes
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: Europe. In fact, my horse hath a most excellent and social
quality; for although he cannot pledge in my cup, yet we share
our loaf between us, and it will be hard if he suffers famine
where cakes or bannocks are to be found. And, to cut this matter
short, I beseech you, my good friends, to observe the state of
Sir Duncan Campbell's palfrey, which stands in that stall before
us, fat and fair; and, in return for your anxiety an my account,
I give you my honest asseveration, that while we travel the same
road, both that palfrey and his rider shall lack for food before
either Gustavus or I."
Having said this he filled a large measure with corn, and walked
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