| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: cannon, one, two, three--four--the last two almost together--and
almost instantly the boatswain called out, "'Tis the sloop, sir!
look at the sloop!"
The sloop had got afloat again, and had been coming up to the aid
of the schooner, when the pirates fired their second broadside
now at her. When the lieutenant looked at her she was quivering
with the impact of the shot, and the next moment she began
falling off to the wind, and he could see the wounded men rising
and falling and struggling upon her decks.
At the same moment the boatswain called out that the enemy was
coming aboard, and even as he spoke the pirate sloop came
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: Hard by the bridge, there was a stone cross upon a knoll, and here
the group had collected - half a dozen women and one tall fellow in
a russet smock - discussing what the bell betided. An express had
gone through the hamlet half an hour before, and drunk a pot of ale
in the saddle, not daring to dismount for the hurry of his errand;
but he had been ignorant himself of what was forward, and only bore
sealed letters from Sir Daniel Brackley to Sir Oliver Oates, the
parson, who kept the Moat House in the master's absence.
But now there was the noise of a horse; and soon, out of the edge
of the wood and over the echoing bridge, there rode up young Master
Richard Shelton, Sir Daniel's ward. He, at the least, would know,
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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: her services extremely useful during this wild campaign. And
most readily had these services been rendered to friend and foe,
wherever they could be most useful. She was now in an apartment
of the castle, anxiously superintending the preparation of
vulnerary herbs, to be applied to the wounded; receiving reports
from different females respecting those under their separate
charge, and distributing what means she had for their relief,
when Allan M'Aulay suddenly entered the apartment. She started,
for she had heard that he had left the camp upon a distant
mission; and, however accustomed she was to the gloom of his
countenance, it seemed at present to have even a darker shade
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