| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: hove in sight, with a flag black as ink flying from her foremast.
`Go in and win, my hearties!' says the captain, and a tremendous
fight began. Of course the British beat, they always do."
"No, they don't!" cried Jo, aside.
"Having taken the pirate captain prisoner, sailed slap over
the schooner, whose decks were piled high with dead and whose
lee scuppers ran blood, for the order had been `Cutlasses, and
die hard!' `Bosun's mate, take a bight of the flying-jib sheet,
and start this villain if he doesn't confess his sins double
quick, ' said the British captain. The Portuguese held his tongue
like a brick, and walked the plank, while the jolly tars cheered
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson: all, and speaking sometimes not twenty words in a whole day. That
which he said was still coherent; but it turned almost invariably
upon the party for whom he kept his crazy lookout. He would tell
Sir William often, and always as if it were a new communication,
that he had "a brother somewhere in the woods," and beg that the
sentinels should be directed "to inquire for him." "I am anxious
for news of my brother," he would say. And sometimes, when we were
under way, he would fancy he spied a canoe far off upon the water
or a camp on the shore, and exhibit painful agitation. It was
impossible but Sir William should be struck with these
singularities; and at last he led me aside, and hinted his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: avez jure devant tout le monde.
HERODIAS. Taisez-vous. Ce n'est pas e vous que je parle.
HERODIAS. Ma fille a bien raison de demander la tete de cet homme.
Il a vomi des insultes contre moi. Il a dit des choses monstrueuses
contre moi. On voit qu'elle aime beaucoup sa mere. Ne cedez pas,
ma fille. Il a jure, il a jure.
HERODE. Taisez-vous. Ne me parlez pas . . . Voyons, Salome, il
faut etre raisonnable, n'est-ce pas? N'est-ce pas qu'il faut etre
raisonnable? Je n'ai jamais ete dur envers vous. Je vous ai
toujours aimee . . . Peut-etre, je vous ai trop aimee. Ainsi, ne me
demandez pas cela. C'est horrible, c'est epouvantable de me
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