| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: of King Henry with double-curb bridles, and kept it well in hand
when it showed mettle and seemed inclined to rear and plunge.
But the affair at Gamwell feast threw many additional
difficulties in the way of the accomplishment of this hope;
and very shortly afterwards King Henry the Second went to make
up in the next world his quarrel with Thomas-a-Becket;
and Richard Coeur de Lion made all England resound with
preparations for the crusade, to the great delight of many
zealous adventurers, who eagerly flocked under his banner
in the hope of enriching themselves with Saracen spoil,
which they called fighting the battles of God. Richard, who was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: should have to wander a year in those mountains before he found him,
and so he directed Sancho to take a short cut over one side of the
mountain, while he himself went by the other, and perhaps by this
means they might light upon this man who had passed so quickly out
of their sight.
"I could not do that," said Sancho, "for when I separate from your
worship fear at once lays hold of me, and assails me with all sorts of
panics and fancies; and let what I now say be a notice that from
this time forth I am not going to stir a finger's width from your
presence."
"It shall be so," said he of the Rueful Countenance, "and I am
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: the throne. It was with the same tense feeling of dreamy
unreality that Myles walked slowly up the length of the hall,
measuring his steps by those of Gascoyne. Suddenly he felt Lord
George Beaumont touch him lightly upon the arm, and almost
instinctively he stopped short--he was standing just before the
covered steps of the throne.
He saw Gascoyne mount to the third step, stop short, kneel, and
offer the sword and the spurs he carried to the King, who took
the weapon and laid it across his knees. Then the squire bowed
low, and walking backward withdrew to one side, leaving Myles
standing alone facing the throne. The King unlocked the spur
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