| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: advancing it. He cannot but be conscious, besides, that the
first information will be readily received by government, and
that if the question be, which can first lodge intelligence of
the affair, we can easily save a few hours on him."
"You should say you, and not we, when you talk of priorities in
such a race of treachery; for my part, I won't enter my horse for
such a plate," said Mareschal; and added betwixit his teeth, "A
pretty pair of fellows to trust a man's neck with!"
"I am not to be intimidated from doing what I think proper," said
Sir Frederick Langley; "and my first step shall be to leave
Ellieslaw. I have no reason to keep faith with one" (looking at
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: in a given number of Western horses than in an
equal number of the average men one meets on the
street. Their whole education, from the time they
run loose on the range until the time when, branded,
corralled, broken, and saddled, they pick their way
under guidance over a bad piece of trail, tends to
develop their self-reliance. They learn to think for
themselves.
To begin with two misconceptions, merely by way
of clearing the ground: the Western horse is generally
designated as a "bronco." The term is considered
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: caution which had delayed me from any rash manifestation of
suspicions now seen to be absurd. I smiled as the thought arose:
what if this suspected stranger should also be pestered by an
active imagination, and should entertain similar suspicions of me?
He must have seen in my eyes the look of recognition which I saw in
his. On hearing of the murder, our meeting may also have recurred
to him; and his suspicions would have this color, wanting to mine,
that I happen to inherit with my Italian blood a somewhat truculent
appearance, which has gained for me among my friends the playful
sobriquet of "the brigand."
Anxious to atone at once for my folly, and to remove from my mind
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