| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: private manner."
He seemed to muse awhile, holding his lip in his hand, and
looking now at me and now upon the causeway of the street.
"Yes," says he, "that will be the best, no doubt." And he led me
back with him into his house, cried out to some one whom I could
not see that he would be engaged all morning, and brought me into
a little dusty chamber full of books and documents. Here he sate
down, and bade me be seated; though I thought he looked a little
ruefully from his clean chair to my muddy rags. "And now," says
he, "if you have any business, pray be brief and come swiftly to
the point. Nec gemino bellum Trojanum orditur ab ovo --do you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: Friar Tuck bridled at being so checked in his speech,
nevertheless he went straightway to do Robin's bidding;
so presently a great crock was brought, and wine was poured out for
all the guests and for Robin Hood. Then Robin held his cup aloft.
"Stay!" cried he. "Tarry in your drinking till I give you a pledge.
Here is to good King Richard of great renown, and may all enemies
to him be confounded."
Then all drank the King's health, even the King himself.
"Methinks, good fellow," said he, "thou hast drunk to
thine own confusion."
"Never a whit," quoth merry Robin, "for I tell thee that we of Sherwood
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Ah, thy father had been so resolv'd!
GLOSTER.
That you might still have worn the petticoat,
And ne'er have stol'n the breech from Lancaster.
PRINCE.
Let Aesop fable in a winter's night;
His currish riddle sorts not with this place.
GLOSTER.
By heaven, brat, I'll plague you for that word.
QUEEN MARGARET.
Ay, thou wast born to be a plague to men.
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