| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: the slopes of the mountain. My carriage is close by, only
two hundred yards behind. I will lend you one of my
horses, harness it to the remains of the telga, and to-mor-
how, if no accident befalls us, we will arrive together at
Ekaterenburg."
"That, Mr. Korpanoff," said Alcide, "is indeed a gen-
erous proposal."
"Indeed, sir," replied Michael, "I would willingly offer
you places in my tarantass, but it will only hold two, and my
sister and I already fill it."
"Really, sir," answered Alcide, "with your horse and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: he would hold them but a very small burden if she gave him, also, some
share in what she suffered and achieved. The depth of her own pride
and love were not more apparent to her than the sense that the dead
asked neither flowers nor regrets, but a share in the life which they
had given her, the life which they had lived.
Rodney found her a moment later sitting beneath her grandfather's
portrait. She laid her hand on the seat next her in a friendly way,
and said:
"Come and sit down, William. How glad I was you were here! I felt
myself getting ruder and ruder."
"You are not good at hiding your feelings," he returned dryly.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey: Silvermane kept to his gait with the tirelessness of a desert horse.
August Naab had once said fifty miles a day would be play for the
stallion. All the afternoon Hare watched the trail speed toward him and
the end of Coconina rise above him. Long before sunset he had reached
the slope of the mountain and had begun the ascent. Half way up he came
to the snow and counted the tracks of three horses. At twilight he rode
into the glade where August Naab had waited for his Navajo friends.
There, in a sheltered nook among the rocks, he unsaddled Silvermane,
covered and fed him, built a fire, ate sparingly of his meat and bread,
and rolling up in his blanket, was soon asleep.
He was up and off before sunrise, and he came out on the western slope of
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