| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: frugality, meant wealth; and he promised himself to disappear
among the crowds at Waterloo, or (if that should prove
impossible) to slink out of the house in the course of the
evening and melt like a dream into the millions of London. By a
peculiar interposition of Providence and railway mismanagement he
had not so long to wait.
He was one of the first to come to himself and scramble to his
feet after the Browndean catastrophe, and he had no sooner
remarked his prostrate nephews than he understood his opportunity
and fled. A man of upwards of seventy, who has just met with a
railway accident, and who is cumbered besides with the full
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: therefore, in dreadful terror, sometimes thinking they heard her
voice without, and at other times, that sounds of a different
description were mingled with the mournful sigh of the night-
breeze, or the dashing of the cascade. Sometimes, too, the latch
rattled, as if some frail and impotent hand were in vain
attempting to lift it, and ever and anon they expected the
entrance of their terrible patient, animated by supernatural
strength, and in the company, perhaps, of some being more
dreadful than herself. Morning came at length. They sought
brake, rock, and thicket in vain. Two hours after daylight, the
minister himself appeared, and, on the report of the watchers,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: an' makes his get-away. Dat peter-boy we meets at Quincy
slips me an earful about him. Here's w'ere we draws down de
five hundred if we're cagey."
"Whaddaya mean, cagey?"
"Why we leaves 'em alone an' goes to de nex' farm an' calls
up K. C. an' tips off de dicks, see?"
"Youse don't tink we'll get any o' dat five hun, do youse,
wit de dicks in on it?"
The other scratched his head.
"No," he said, rather dubiously, after a moment's deep
thought; "dey don't nobody get nothin' dat de dicks see first;
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