| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: thine own forfeited life."
"If my life rest on hers," answered the outlaw, "it is secure,
for she still survives; but it has a more insecure reliance--the
frail promise of a son of Diarmid."
"That promise shall not fail you," said the Campbell, "if you can
assure me that she survives, and where she is to be found."
"In the Castle of Darlinvarach," said Ranald MacEagh, "under the
name of Annot Lyle. I have often heard of her from my kinsmen,
who have again approached their native woods, and it is not long
since mine old eyes beheld her."
"You!" said Murdoch, in astonishment, "you, a chief among the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: whose important function is to brand the Pope's bulls with the words
_Datum Romae_. He enjoys a princely revenue and the friendship of
God.
DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men
prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk
with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then
point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy
health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old,
not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find
only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the
others who have tried it.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: rose, forgot his fatigue, and followed him silently, grieved to have
touched a wound that was evidently not healed.
"Some day, my friend," said Philippe, pressing his hand, and thanking
him for his mute repentance by a heart-rending look, "I will relate to
you my life. To-day I cannot."
They continued their way in silence. When the colonel's pain seemed
soothed, the marquis resumed his fatigue; and with the instinct, or
rather the will, of a wearied man his eye took in the very depths of
the forest; he questioned the tree-tops and examined the branching
paths, hoping to discover some dwelling where he could ask
hospitality. Arriving at a cross-ways, he thought he noticed a slight
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