| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: I uncovered and besought her, after a very staid fashion, to put me
on my way to Great Missenden. Her voice trembled a little, to be
sure, but I think her mind was set at rest; and she told me, very
explicitly, to follow the path until I came to the end of the wood,
and then I should see the village below me in the bottom of the
valley. And, with mutual courtesies, the little old maid and I went
on our respective ways.
Nor had she misled me. Great Missenden was close at hand, as she had
said, in the trough of a gentle valley, with many great elms about
it. The smoke from its chimneys went up pleasantly in the afternoon
sunshine. The sleepy hum of a threshing-machine filled the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: note of fear in the housekeepers s voice and she added hastily:
"Does any one besides ourselves know that he was here?"
No. Lizzie and the cook are in the kitchen talking about the
murder."
Mrs. Bernauer shivered again and went slowly out of the room and
up the stairs.
If Franz believed that the stranger had left the house by the
front entrance he was very much mistaken. When Muller found
himself alone in the corridor he turned quickly and hurried out
into the garden. None of the servants had seen him. Lizzie and
the cook were engaged in an earnest conversation in the kitchen
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum: Lord Nerle, the son of Neggar, the chief baron of Heg!"
The other bowed low.
"I am pleased to know your station," he said. "I am called Prince
Marvel, and this is my first adventure."
"And likely to be your last," exclaimed the boy, sneeringly. "For I
am stronger than you, and I have fought many times with full grown men."
"Are you ready?" asked Prince Marvel, for answer.
"Yes."
Then the swords clashed and sparks flew from the blades. But it was
not for long. Suddenly Nerle's sword went flying through the air and
shattered its blade against a wall of rock. He scowled at Prince
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