| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: "Well, I declare! Are trucks already running on the rails
of New Aberfoyle?"
"Father," replied Harry, "it sounds to me just like the noise
made by waves rolling on the sea shore."
"We can't be under the sea though!" cried the old overman.
"No," said the engineer, "but it is not impossible that we
should be under Loch Katrine."
"The roof cannot have much thickness just here, if the noise
of the water is perceptible."
"Very little indeed," answered James Starr, "and that is the reason
this cavern is so huge."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic: chapter from the New Testament."
The devoted daughter obeyed this request, and she had scarcely
finished the chapter before the girls came for their candy. She
was unwilling to leave her mother alone even for a minute; so she
sent one of them over to request the attendance of Mrs. Howard,
and the good woman took her place by the side of the sufferer.
Katy, scarcely conscious what she was doing --for her heart was
with her mother,--supplied each girl with her stock of candy, and
received the money for it.
"You need not come to-morrow," she said to them, as they were
departing.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: conversation in both tongues; as I found some weeks after, when I
went to pay my respects to the emperor of Blefuscu, which, in the
midst of great misfortunes, through the malice of my enemies,
proved a very happy adventure to me, as I shall relate in its
proper place.
The reader may remember, that when I signed those articles upon
which I recovered my liberty, there were some which I disliked,
upon account of their being too servile; neither could anything
but an extreme necessity have forced me to submit. But being now
a NARDAC of the highest rank in that empire, such offices were
looked upon as below my dignity, and the emperor (to do him
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