| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: not doubt for a moment that this sudden extinguishing of the lamp
was a signal. He believed that Knoll had seen clearly and that he
had told truly what he had seen. A lamp that is blown out by the
wind flickers uneasily before going out. A sudden extinguishing of
the light means human agency. And the lamp was lit again a few
moments afterward and burned on steadily as before. A short time
after the lamp had been put out the man had been seen going through
the garden. And it could not have been much later before the shot
was heard. This shot had been fired between the hours of nine and
ten, for it was during this hour only that Knoll was in the garden
house and heard the shot. But it was not necessary to depend upon
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving: is, this was not the case with the redoubtable Brom Bones; and
from the moment Ichabod Crane made his advances, the interests of
the former evidently declined: his horse was no longer seen tied
to the palings on Sunday nights, and a deadly feud gradually
arose between him and the preceptor of Sleepy Hollow.
Brom, who had a degree of rough chivalry in his nature,
would fain have carried matters to open warfare and have settled
their pretensions to the lady, according to the mode of those
most concise and simple reasoners, the knights-errant of yore, --
by single combat; but lchabod was too conscious of the superior
might of his adversary to enter the lists against him; he had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: do you mean?"
"The Polytechnique."
"Ha, ha, those barracks where they expect to make soldiers in
dormitories," said the veteran, whose aversion for officers trained in
that nursery was insurmountable. "To what arm do you belong?"
"I am in the navy."
"Ha!" cried Hulot, smiling vindictively, "how many of your fellow-
students are in the navy? Don't you know," he added in a serious tone,
"that none but the artillery and the engineers graduate from there?"
The young man was not disconcerted.
"An exception was made in my favor, on account of the name I bear," he
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