| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: neighbouring gentlemen contributed largely to the relief of the
people, especially by sending in timber towards their building;
also their market-house is handsomely built, but the church not
yet, though we hear there is a fund raising likewise for that.
Here is a very large pond, or lake of water, kept up to a head by a
strong BATTER D'EAU, or dam, which the people tell us was made by
the Romans; and that it is to this day part of the great Roman
highway which leads from Winchester to Alton, and, as it is
supposed, went on to London, though we nowhere see any remains of
it, except between Winchester and Alton, and chiefly between this
town and Alton.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: name called in question for any petty delinquency."
"And pray, Sir," continued Lord Menteith, "what made you leave so
gainful a service?"
"Why, truly, sir," answered the soldier, "an Irish cavalier,
called O'Quilligan, being major of our regiment, and I having had
words with him the night before, respecting the worth and
precedence of our several nations, it pleased him the next day to
deliver his orders to me with the point of his batoon advanced
and held aloof, instead of declining and trailing the same, as is
the fashion from a courteous commanding officer towards his equal
in rank, though, it may be, his inferior in military grade. Upon
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: He rose immediately, and turning his back on the company while he
said to her in an undertone,--"Don't give way, Lucy; don't make
a fool of yourself, my dear, before these people," he added in his
usual loud voice--"Go and order the phaeton, Fred; I have no time
to waste."
Mary Garth had before this been getting ready to go home with her father.
She met Fred in the hall, and now for the first time had the courage
to look at him He had that withered sort of paleness which will
sometimes come on young faces, and his hand was very cold when she
shook it. Mary too was agitated; she was conscious that fatally,
without will of her own, she had perhaps made a great difference
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