| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: upon the floor. "What gars ye ask that?" he said, and he caught
me by the breast of the jacket, and looked this time straight
into my eyes: his own were little and light, and bright like a
bird's, blinking and winking strangely.
"What do you mean?" I asked, very calmly, for I was far stronger
than he, and not easily frightened. "Take your hand from my
jacket. This is no way to behave."
My uncle seemed to make a great effort upon himself. "Dod man,
David," he said, "ye should-nae speak to me about your father.
That's where the mistake is." He sat awhile and shook, blinking
in his plate: "He was all the brother that ever I had," he added,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: of manner as I could assume.
"I have to thank you, gentlemen, for your advice," said I. "And now I
would like, by your leave, to set you two or three questions. There is
one thing that has fallen rather on one aide, for instance: Will this
cause do any good to our friend James of the Glens?"
They seemed all a hair set back, and gave various answers, but
concurring practically in one point, that James had now no hope but in
the King's mercy.
"To proceed, then," said I, "will it do any good to Scotland? We have
a saying that it is an ill bird that fouls his own nest. I remember
hearing we had a riot in Edinburgh when I was an infant child, which
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: make amends for his spoiled mantle. Come, Paget, let us see what
use he has made of it, for I can see through him already. He is
a marvellously sharp-witted spirit." They went to the spot,
within sight of which, but at some distance, the young cavalier
still lingered, as the fowler watches the net which he has set.
The Queen approached the window, on which Raleigh had used her
gift, to inscribe the following line:--
"Fain would I climb, but that I fear to fall."
The Queen smiled, read it twice over, once with deliberation to
Lady Paget, and once again to herself. "It is a pretty
beginning," she said, after the consideration of a moment or two;
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