| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: procured him in the Highlands the nickname of Gillespie Grumach
(or the grim), was less perceptible when he looked downward,
which perhaps was one cause of his having adopted that habit.
In person, he was tall and thin, but not without that dignity of
deportment and manners, which became his high rank. Something
there was cold in his address, and sinister in his look, although
he spoke and behaved with the usual grace of a man of such
quality. He was adored by his own clan, whose advancement he had
greatly studied, although he was in proportion disliked by the
Highlanders of other septs, some of whom he had already stripped
of their possessions, while others conceived themselves in danger
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: Then things came to me slowly. A bruise on my temple as-
serted itself.
"Are you better?" asked the curate in a whisper.
At last I answered him. I sat up.
"Don't move," he said. "The floor is covered with smashed
crockery from the dresser. You can't possibly move without
making a noise, and I fancy THEY are outside."
We both sat quite silent, so that we could scarcely hear
each other breathing. Everything seemed deadly still, but
once something near us, some plaster or broken brickwork,
slid down with a rumbling sound. Outside and very near was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: appear than Elizabeth wisely resolved to be perfectly easy and
unembarrassed; a resolution the more necessary to be made, but
perhaps not the more easily kept, because she saw that the
suspicions of the whole party were awakened against them, and
that there was scarcely an eye which did not watch his
behaviour when he first came into the room. In no countenance
was attentive curiosity so strongly marked as in Miss Bingley's,
in spite of the smiles which overspread her face whenever she
spoke to one of its objects; for jealousy had not yet made her
desperate, and her attentions to Mr. Darcy were by no means
over. Miss Darcy, on her brother's entrance, exerted herself
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