| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: and the Englishman was amused. When he went away, Lispeth walked
with him, up the Hill as far as Narkunda, very troubled and very
miserable. The Chaplain' s wife, being a good Christian and
disliking anything in the shape of fuss or scandal--Lispeth was
beyond her management entirely--had told the Englishman to tell
Lispeth that he was coming back to marry her. "She is but a child,
you know, and, I fear, at heart a heathen," said the Chaplain's
wife. So all the twelve miles up the hill the Englishman, with his
arm around Lispeth's waist, was assuring the girl that he would
come back and marry her; and Lispeth made him promise over and over
again. She wept on the Narkunda Ridge till he had passed out of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: presence could be of no help to them in their investigations.
Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful
examination of the premises, but without finding anything which
threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not
arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes
during which he might have communicated with his friend the
Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and
searched, without anything being found which could incriminate
him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right
shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been
cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: "Bide a wee, my bairn; mind his benefits havena thriven wi'
a'body. Jock Howden died o' the very same disorder Elshie
pretended to cure him of, about the fa' o' the leaf; and though
he helped Lambside's cow weel out o' the moor-ill, yet the
louping-ill's been sairer amane; his sheep than ony season
before. And then I have heard he uses sic words abusing human
nature, that's like a fleeing in the face of Providence; and ye
mind ye said yoursell, the first time ye ever saw him, that he
was mair like a bogle than a living thing."
"Hout, mother," said Hobbie, "Elshie's no that bad a chield; he's
a grewsome spectacle for a crooked disciple, to be sure, and a
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