| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: could go to Brace's and find out how things was there.
It was getting pretty dim by the time we turned the corner
of the woods, sweating and panting with that long run,
and see the sycamores thirty yards ahead of us;
and just then we see a couple of men run into the bunch
and heard two or three terrible screams for help.
"Poor Jake is killed, sure," we says. We was scared through
and through, and broke for the tobacker field and hid there,
trembling so our clothes would hardly stay on; and just
as we skipped in there, a couple of men went tearing by,
and into the bunch they went, and in a second out jumps four
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: When, therefore, they found their ranks unexpectedly broken, and
that the objects of their greatest terror were suddenly in the
midst of them, the panic, in spite of Sir Duncan's attempts to
stop it, became universal. Indeed, the figure of Major Dalgetty
alone, sheathed in impenetrable armour, and making his horse
caracole and bound, so as to give weight to every blow which he
struck, would have been a novelty in itself sufficient to terrify
those who had never seen anything more nearly resembling such a
cavalier, than a SHELTY waddling under a Highlander far bigger
than itself. The repulsed Royalists returned to the charge; the
Irish, keeping their ranks, maintained a fire equally close and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft: persons with whom they lived would not sell them.
After failing in several attempts to buy them,
Frank cultivated large whiskers and moustachios,
cut off his hair, put on a wig and glasses, and
went down as a white man, and stopped in the
neighbourhood where his sister was; and after see-
ing her and also his little brother, arrangements
were made for them to meet at a particular place
on a Sunday, which they did, and got safely off.
I saw Frank myself, when he came for the little
twins. Though I was then quite a lad, I well
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