| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: and leaped with him from the narrow ledge into the abyss below.
There was a rush, a shout; all faces were bent over the precipice.
The girl hung by her chained wrist: the officer was gone. There
was a moment's awful silence; and then Amyas heard his body
crashing through the tree-tops far below.
"Haul her up! Hew her in pieces! Burn the witch!" and the driver,
seizing the chain, pulled at it with all his might, while all
springing from their chairs, stooped over the brink.
Now was the time for Amyas! Heaven had delivered them into his
hands. Swift and sure, at ten yards off, his arrow rushed through
the body of the driver, and then, with a roar as of the leaping
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: advantage by the absence of so many good Protestants, who have
chosen rather to leave their country, than stay at home and pay
tithes against their conscience to an episcopal curate.
Secondly, The poorer tenants will have something valuable of
their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and
help to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being
already seized, and money a thing unknown.
Thirdly, Whereas the maintainance of an hundred thousand
children, from two years old, and upwards, cannot be computed at
less than ten shillings a piece per annum, the nation's stock
will be thereby encreased fifty thousand pounds per annum,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: So she sat down to cry again and upbraid herself;
and by this time the scholars began to gather again,
and she had to hide her griefs and still her broken
heart and take up the cross of a long, dreary, aching
afternoon, with none among the strangers about her
to exchange sorrows with.
CHAPTER VIII
TOM dodged hither and thither through
lanes until he was well out of the track
of returning scholars, and then fell into a
moody jog. He crossed a small "branch"
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