| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: council-room. It contained nothing but a low seat and a knotted war-club.
Isaac heard the rattle of beads and bear claws, and as he turned a tall and
majestic Indian entered the room. It was Tarhe, the chief of all the Wyandots.
Though Tarhe was over seventy, he walked erect; his calm face, dark as a
bronze mask, showed no trace of his advanced age. Every line and feature of
his face had race in it; the high forehead, the square, protruding jaw, the
stern mouth, the falcon eyes--all denoted the pride and unbending will of the
last of the Tarhes.
"The White Eagle is again in the power of Tarhe," said the chief in his native
tongue. "Though he had the swiftness of the bounding deer or the flight of the
eagle it would avail him not. The wild geese as they fly northward are not
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: by himself. On that stormy night of his return, Carthew had
told his story; the old lady had more upon her mind than mere
bereavements; and among the mental pictures on which she
looked, as she walked staring down the path, was one of
Midway Island and the Flying Scud.
Mr. Denman heard my inquiries with discomposure, but
informed me the shyster was already gone.
"Gone?" cried I. "Then what can he have come for? One thing
I can tell you, it was not to see the house."
"I don't see it could have been anything else," replied the butler.
"You may depend upon it it was," said I. "And whatever it
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Travels and Researches in South Africa by Dr. David Livingstone: formerly alight@mercury.interpath.net). To assure a high quality text,
the original was typed in (manually) twice and electronically compared.
[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALIZED.
Some obvious errors have been corrected.]
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.
Also called, Travels and Researches in South Africa;
or, Journeys and Researches in South Africa.
By David Livingstone [British (Scot) Missionary and Explorer--1813-1873.]
David Livingstone was born in Scotland, received his medical degree
from the University of Glasgow, and was sent to South Africa
by the London Missionary Society. Circumstances led him to try to meet
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