| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy: young gallants out of the inn and along the Dover Road into the gloom
beyond.
In the coffee-room the masked leader of this daring attempt
was quickly glancing through the stolen papers.
"Not a bad day's work on the whole," he muttered, as he
quietly took off his mask, and his pale, fox-like eyes glittered in
the red glow of the fire. "Not a bad day's work."
He opened one or two letters from Sir Andrew Ffoulkes'
pocket-book, noted the tiny scrap of paper which the two young men had
only just had time to read; but one letter specially, signed Armand
St. Just, seemed to give him strange satisfaction.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: My visit is one of courtesy and excuse, not of menace and authority."
"There it is," said the baron: "every one takes a pleasure
in contradicting me. Here is this courteous knight, who has
not opened his mouth three times since he has been in my house
except to take in provision, cuts me short in my story with
a flat denial."
"Oh! I cry you mercy, sir knight," said Matilda; "I did not mark you before.
I am your debtor for no slight favour, and so is my liege lord."
"Her liege lord!" exclaimed the baron, taking large strides
across the chamber.
"Pardon me, gentle lady," said Sir Ralph. "Had I known you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: He saw no one.
An instant later Wilton Barnstable and Cap'n Abernethy were
beside him.
"Gone!" said Cleggett simply.
Barnstable drew from his pocket a small electric lantern and
swept the beam in a circle about the hold. Again and again he
raked the darkness until the finger of light had rested upon
every foot of the interior.
But Loge had vanished as completely as a snowflake that falls
into a tub of water.
CHAPTER XXV
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