| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: challenge and gage of battle to any who should dare to take the
fatal token down. "Reach it to me," said the reverend churchman.
The clerk and the sexton equally declined the perilous office,
and the good Bernard Gilpin was obliged to remove the glove with
his own hands, desiring those who were present to inform the
champion that he, and no other, had possessed himself of the gage
of defiance. But the champion was as much ashamed to face
Bernard Gilpin as the officials of the church had been to
displace his pledge of combat.
The date of the following story is about the latter years of
Queen Elizabeth's reign; and the events took place in Liddesdale,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Roger de Conde to this pass against the advice of all
and I remain with him to the end."
"But, My Lady--" cried John.
"But nothing, sirrah!" she interrupted sharply. "Do
as you are bid. Follow my Lady Mary, and see that
she comes to my father's castle in safety," and raising
her riding whip she struck Mary's palfrey across the
rump so that the animal nearly unseated his fair rider
as he leaped frantically to one side and started madly
up the road down which they had come.
"After her, John," commanded Joan peremptorily,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper.
Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations
have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great
contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies
of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress
of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known
to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory
and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction
in regard to it is ventured.
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts
were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it--
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