| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: original position. Here he lay down for a while below his
spoils, and, as my father imagined, feigned to be asleep; but
presently he had raised himself again upon one elbow, looked
with sharp scrutiny at his companions, and then swiftly
carried his hand into his bosom and thence to his mouth. By
the movement of his jaws he must be eating; in that camp of
famine he had reserved a store of nourishment; and while his
companions lay in the stupor of approaching death, secretly
restored his powers.
My father was so incensed at what he saw that he raised his
rifle; and but for an accident, he has often declared, he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: eternal wisdom hath its ends.' I go, friends; I go. Take ye my
boy, my precious jewel. I go hence, trusting that all shall be
well, and that even for his infant hands there is a labor in the
vineyard."
She knelt down and whispered to Ilbrahim, who at first struggled
and clung to his mother, with sobs and tears, but remained
passive when she had kissed his cheek and arisen from the ground.
Having held her hands over his head in mental prayer, she was
ready to depart.
"Farewell, friends in mine extremity," she said to Pearson and
his wife; "the good deed ye have done me is a treasure laid up in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: would not on any account prevent her accompanying him.
They began their walk, and Mrs. Morland was not entirely
mistaken in his object in wishing it. Some explanation
on his father's account he had to give; but his first
purpose was to explain himself, and before they reached
Mr. Allen's grounds he had done it so well that Catherine
did not think it could ever be repeated too often.
She was assured of his affection; and that heart in return
was solicited, which, perhaps, they pretty equally knew
was already entirely his own; for, though Henry was now
sincerely attached to her, though he felt and delighted
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