| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: Then, as Aline rose into view, detaching from her background, and
he at last perceived her, he heaved himself abruptly to his weary
legs again, and stood there stiffly bowing to her across the space
of gleaming floor. "Mademoiselle, I had not suspected your
presence," he said, and he seemed extraordinarily ill-at-ease, a
man startled, as if caught in an illicit act.
"I perceived it, monsieur," she answered, as she advanced to do
madame's commission. She paused before him. "From my heart,
monsieur, I grieve that we should meet again in circumstances so
very painful."
Not since the day of his duel with Andre-Louis - the day which had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: obscured as if by midnight, but between them a great part of it was
clearly if darkly visible amid driving mist and rain. The wind
blew into the harbour mouth. Naval authorities describe it as of
hurricane force. It had, however, few or none of the effects on
shore suggested by that ominous word, and was successfully
withstood by trees and buildings. The agitation of the sea, on the
other hand, surpassed experience and description. Seas that might
have awakened surprise and terror in the midst of the Atlantic
ranged bodily and (it seemed to observers) almost without
diminution into the belly of that flask-shaped harbour; and the
war-ships were alternately buried from view in the trough, or seen
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: wonderfully adapt. Geryon is said to have been a king of Spain,
whom Hercules slew. It was a fiction of the poets, that he had
three heads, which the author says he shall have again: That is,
Spain shall have three kings; which is now wonderfully verified;
for besides the King of Portugal, which properly is part of
Spain, there are now two rivals for Spain, Charles and Philip:
But Charles being descended fro the Count of Hapsburgh, founder
of the Austrian family, shall soon make those heads but two; by
overturning Philip, and driving him out of Spain.
Some of these predictions are already fulfilled; and it is highly
probable the rest may be in due time; and, I think, I have not
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