| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: the artificers, over all, was next visited; it had now a very
dreary and deserted appearance when its former thronged state
was recollected. In some parts the water had come through the
boarding, and had discoloured the lining of green cloth, but
it was, nevertheless, in a good habitable condition. While
the seamen were employed in landing a stock of provisions, a
few of the artificers set to work with great eagerness to
sweep and clean the several apartments. The exterior of the
beacon was, in the meantime, examined, and found in perfect
order. The painting, though it had a somewhat blanched
appearance, adhered firmly both on the sides and roof, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: power of money! What can it not do when basely used. I felt
so thankful that Lord Godalming is rich, and both he and Mr. Morris,
who also has plenty of money, are willing to spend it so freely.
For if they did not, our little expedition could not start,
either so promptly or so well equipped, as it will within another hour.
It is not three hours since it was arranged what part each of us
was to do. And now Lord Godalming and Jonathan have a lovely
steam launch, with steam up ready to start at a moment's notice.
Dr. Seward and Mr. Morris have half a dozen good horses, well appointed.
We have all the maps and appliances of various kinds that can be had.
Professor Van Helsing and I are to leave by the 11:40 train tonight
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: (from a bachelor uncle who had made some money
in the coal business) he threw up his command of
an East-coast collier with a feeling as though he
had escaped from the galleys. After all these years
he might have counted on the fingers of his two
hands all the days he had been out of sight of Eng-
land. He had never known what it was to be out
of soundings. "I have never been further than
eighty fathoms from the land," was one of his
boasts.
Bessie Carvil heard all these things. In front of
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