| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: leave Nettleton. It was Mrs. Royall that made me do
it."
Charity immediately perceived that something bitter had
happened to him, and that he was trying to talk down
the recollection. She went up to bed early, leaving
him seated in moody thought, his elbows propped on the
worn oilcloth of the supper table. On the way up she
had extracted from his overcoat pocket the key of the
cupboard where the bottle of whiskey was kept.
She was awakened by a rattling at her door and jumped
out of bed. She heard Mr. Royall's voice, low and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: water, deep and rich as the mantle of a merchant
of Tyre. White ice floated in it. The savage fierce
granite needles and knife-edges of the mountain crest
hemmed it about.
But this was temporizing, and we knew it. The
first drop of the trail was so steep that we could flip
a pebble to the first level of it, and so rough in its
water-and-snow-gouged knuckles of rocks that it
seemed that at the first step a horse must necessarily
fall end over end. We made it successfully, however,
and breathed deep. Even Lily, by a miracle of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: armis ius suum exequi conaretur multitudinemque hominum ex agris
magistratus cogerent, Orgetorix mortuus est; neque abest suspicio, ut
Helvetii arbitrantur, quin ipse sibi mortem consciverit.
Post eius mortem nihilo minus Helvetii id quod constituerant facere
conantur, ut e finibus suis exeant. Ubi iam se ad eam rem paratos esse
arbitrati sunt, oppida sua omnia, numero ad duodecim, vicos ad
quadringentos, reliqua privata aedificia incendunt; frumentum omne,
praeter quod secum portaturi erant, comburunt, ut domum reditionis spe
sublata paratiores ad omnia pericula subeunda essent; trium mensum molita
cibaria sibi quemque domo efferre iubent. Persuadent Rauracis et Tulingis
et Latobrigis finitimis, uti eodem usi consilio oppidis suis vicisque
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