| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: a peaked gable which he glimpsed through the oaks of a park sloping
up to the sea-cliffs. And in time he came to a great hedge and
a gate with a little brick lodge, and when he rang the bell there
hobbled to admit him no robed and annointed lackey of the palace,
but a small stubby old man in a smock who spoke as best he could
in the quaint tones of far Cornwall. And Carter walked up the
shady path between trees as near as possible to England's trees,
and clumbed the terraces among gardens set out as in Queen Anne's
time. At the door, flanked by stone cats in the old way, he was
met by a whiskered butler in suitable livery; and was presently
taken to the library where Kuranes, Lord of Ooth-Nargai and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: school men,' he writes, `and BEARDED MEN LIKE MYSELF, were all
attention.' If my grandfather were throughout life a thought
too studious of the art of getting on, much must be forgiven
to the bearded and belated student who looked across, with a
sense of difference, at `the high-school men.' Here was a
gulf to be crossed; but already he could feel that he had made
a beginning, and that must have been a proud hour when he
devoted his earliest earnings to the repayment of the
charitable foundation in which he had received the rudiments
of knowledge.
In yet another way he followed the example of his father-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: family. Annaple's cottage, which was situated down the brook, at
some distance from the scene of mischief, had been hastily
adapted for the temporary accommodation of the old lady and her
daughters, with such articles as had been contributed by the
neighbours, for very little was saved from the wreck.
"Are we to stand here a' day, sirs," exclaimed one tall young
man, "and look at the burnt wa's of our kinsman's house? Every
wreath of the reek is a blast of shame upon us! Let us to horse,
and take the chase.--Who has the nearest bloodhound?"
"It's young Earnscliff," answered another; "and he's been on and
away wi' six horse lang syne, to see if he can track them."
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