| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: and finally into a low building, topped by lofty towers of
massive construction. Here she was turned over to a warrior who
wore the insignia of a dwar, or captain.
"It is O-Tar's wish," explained U-Dor to this one, "that she be
kept until the next games, when the prisoners and the common
warriors shall play for her. Had she not the tongue of a thoat
she had been a worthy stake for our noblest steel," and U-Dor
sighed. "Perhaps even yet I may win a pardon for her. It were too
bad to see such beauty fall to the lot of some common fellow. I
would have honored her myself."
"If I am to be imprisoned, imprison me," said the girl. "I do not
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: plication-tables. They were positively alarming in
their determination to get out, their wrath with one
another, and their vociferous discontent with the
whole situation.
"I can't hold my bag much longer," said poor little
Arnold Carruth.
"Hush up, cry-baby!" whispered Lily, fiercely,
in spite of a clawing paw emerging from her own
bag and threatening her bare arm.
Then came the shoes. One struck Arnold squarely
on the shoulder, nearly knocking him down and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: misunderstand you. You expounded your views to me once before, and
I remember."
"But what flattery, monsieur!"
"You called me an assassin then, because I used my skill to dispose
of a turbulent hot-head who made the world unsafe for me. But how
much better are you, M. the fencing-master, when you oppose yourself
to men whose skill is as naturally inferior to your own!"
M. de La Tour d'Azyr's friends looked grave, perturbed. It was
really incredible to find this great gentleman so far forgetting
himself as to descend to argument with a canaille of a
lawyer-swordsman. And what was worse, it was an argument in which
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