| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: news, returning afterwards to Lyme."
"What men has the Duke with him, did you learn?" asked Wilding.
"Not more than a hundred or so, from what Dare told us."
"A hundred! God help us all! And is England to be conquered with a
hundred men? Oh, this is midsummer frenzy."
"He counts on all true Protestants to flock to his banner," put in
Trenchard, and it was not plain whether he expressed a fact or sneered
at one.
"Does he bring money and arms, at least?" asked Wilding.
"I did not ask," answered Vallancey. "But Dare told us that three
vessels had come over, so that it is to be supposed he brings some
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: To Mr. Darcy it was welcome intelligence-- Elizabeth had been
at Netherfield long enough. She attracted him more than he
liked-- and Miss Bingley was uncivil to HER, and more teasing
than usual to himself. He wisely resolved to be particularly
careful that no sign of admiration should NOW escape him,
nothing that could elevate her with the hope of influencing his
felicity; sensible that if such an idea had been suggested, his
behaviour during the last day must have material weight in
confirming or crushing it. Steady to his purpose, he scarcely
spoke ten words to her through the whole of Saturday, and
though they were at one time left by themselves for half-an-hour,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: "or, by Saint Andrew, I will pin thee to the earth, be what or
whom thou wilt!"
As he spoke he poised his long lance by the middle, and, fixing
his eye upon the object, which seemed to move, he brandished the
weapon, as if meditating to cast it from his hand--a use of the
weapon sometimes, though rarely, resorted to when a missile was
necessary. But Sir Kenneth was ashamed of his purpose, and
grounded his weapon, when there stepped from the shadow into the
moonlight, like an actor entering upon the stage, a stunted,
decrepit creature, whom, by his fantastic dress and deformity, he
recognized, even at some distance, for the male of the two dwarfs
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