| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle: his face. "Levi West!" said he in a loud voice. "Is this the
Levi West you've been telling me of? Look at that scar and the
mark on his cheek! THIS IS BLUESKIN HIMSELF."
XIV
In the chest which Blueskin had dug up out of the sand were
found not only the goldsmiths' bills taken from the packet, but
also many other valuables belonging to the officers and the
passengers of the unfortunate ship.
The New York agents offered Hiram a handsome reward for his
efforts in recovering the lost bills, but Hiram declined it,
positively and finally. "All I want," said he, in his usual dull,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: for war, and waited but the declaration of some of the nobility
to break out into open hostility. It was at this period of
public confusion that our story opens.
The cleugh, or wild ravine, into which Hobbie Elliot had followed
the game, was already far behind him, and he was considerably
advanced on his return homeward, when the night began to close
upon him. This would have been a circumstance of great
indifference to the experienced sportsman, who could have walked
blindfold over every inch of his native heaths, had it not
happened near a spot, which, according to the traditions of the
country, was in extremely bad fame, as haunted by supernatural
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells:
The early part of that night's experience was made up of warmth,
of moonlit Surrey and Sussex landscape, and of a rapid and
successful flight, ascending and swooping, and then ascending
again southward. I could not watch the clouds because the
airship overhung me; I could not see the stars nor gauge the
meteorological happening, but it was fairly clear to me that a
wind shifting between north and northeast was gathering strength,
and after I had satisfied myself by a series of entirely
successful expansions and contractions of the real air-worthiness
of Lord Roberts B, I stopped the engine to save my petrol, and
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