| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: Note: Footnotes in the printed book have been inserted in the
etext in square brackets ("[]") close to the place where
they were referenced by a suffix in the original text.
I. INTRODUCTION TO A LEGEND OF MONTROSE.
The Legend of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place
before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont,
eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the
singular circumstances attending the birth and history of James
Stewart of Ardvoirlich, by whose hand the unfortunate nobleman
fell.
Our subject leads us to talk of deadly feuds, and we must begin
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Make the slightest outcry and I shall kill you," he whis-
pered in the ear of the terrified man.
Across the room Barney saw a revolver lying upon a small
table. He raised the king to his feet and, turning his back
toward the weapon dragged him across the apartment until
the table was within easy reach. Then he snatched up the
revolver and swung the king around into a chair facing him,
the muzzle of the gun pressed against his face.
"Silence," he whispered.
The king, white and trembling, gasped as his eyes fell
upon the face of the American.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: My mishap of yesterday, told in an off-hand way, produced a deep
sensation. It was Othello over again, with no less than three
Desdemonas and a sprinkling of sympathetic senators in the
background. Never were the canoes more flattered, or flattered
more adroitly.
'It is like a violin,' cried one of the girls in an ecstasy.
'I thank you for the word, mademoiselle,' said I. 'All the more
since there are people who call out to me that it is like a
coffin.'
'Oh! but it is really like a violin. It is finished like a
violin,' she went on.
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