| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: the M'Aulays had been placed in feud, was a small sept of
banditti, called, from their houseless state, and their
incessantly wandering among the mountains and glens, the Children
of the Mist. They are a fierce and hardy people, with all the
irritability, and wild and vengeful passions, proper to men who
have never known the restraint of civilized society. A party of
them lay in wait for the unfortunate Warden of the Forest,
surprised him while hunting alone and unattended, and slew him
with every circumstance of inventive cruelty. They cut off his
head, and resolved, in a bravado, to exhibit it at the castle of
his brother-in-law. The laird was absent, and the lady
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: "Pardon, my Lord," said Felton, stopping the duke; "but does your Grace
know that the name of Charlotte Backson is not the true name of this
young woman?"
"Yes, sir, I know it," replied the duke, dipping the quill in the ink.
"Then your Grace knows her real name?" asked Felton, in a sharp tone.
"I know it"; and the duke put the quill to the paper. Felton grew pale.
"And knowing that real name, my Lord," replied Felton, "will you sign it
all the same?"
"Doubtless," said Buckingham, "and rather twice than once."
"I cannot believe," continued Felton, in a voice that became more sharp
and rough, "that your Grace knows that it is to Milady de Winter this
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: methodical arrangement of the story demands it.
CHAPTER XLIX
OF WHAT HAPPENED SANCHO IN MAKING THE ROUND OF HIS ISLAND
We left the great governor angered and irritated by that
portrait-painting rogue of a farmer who, instructed the majordomo,
as the majordomo was by the duke, tried to practise upon him; he
however, fool, boor, and clown as he was, held his own against them
all, saying to those round him and to Doctor Pedro Recio, who as
soon as the private business of the duke's letter was disposed of
had returned to the room, "Now I see plainly enough that judges and
governors ought to be and must be made of brass not to feel the
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