| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: only on the ground of madness--an hypothesis which (as we do not yet
in the least understand what madness is) is no explanation at all.
An age of decay, incoherence, and makeshift, varnish and gilding
upon worm-eaten furniture, and mouldering wainscot, was that same
Ancien Regime. And for that very reason a picturesque age; like one
of its own landscapes. A picturesque bit of uncultivated mountain,
swarming with the prince's game; a picturesque old robber schloss
above, now in ruins; and below, perhaps, the picturesque new
schloss, with its French fountains and gardens, French nymphs of
marble, and of flesh and blood likewise, which the prince has
partially paid for, by selling a few hundred young men to the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery: "Well," said Jane with a sigh, "I feel as if I'd lived many
moons since the morning. I ought to be home studying my
Virgil--that horrid old professor gave us twenty lines to
start in on tomorrow. But I simply couldn't settle down to
study tonight. Anne, methinks I see the traces of tears. If
you've been crying DO own up. It will restore my self-respect,
for I was shedding tears freely before Ruby came along. I
don't mind being a goose so much if somebody else is goosey,
too. Cake? You'll give me a teeny piece, won't you? Thank
you. It has the real Avonlea flavor."
Ruby, perceiving the Queen's calendar lying on the table,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: to our dying day."
"Jack shall go. None deserves it better."
After which there was a long consultation on practical matters, and
it was concluded that Amyas should go up to London and sound Frank
and his mother before any further steps were taken. The other
brethren of the Rose were scattered far and wide, each at his post,
and St. Leger had returned to his uncle, so that it would be unfair
to them, as well as a considerable delay, to demand of them any
fulfilment of their vow. And, as Amyas sagely remarked, "Too many
cooks spoil the broth, and half-a-dozen gentlemen aboard one ship
are as bad as two kings of Brentford."
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