| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: The early night blackness cleared to the cold starlight. The
horses were not moving, and no sound disturbed the deathly
silence of the canyon.
"I'll bury her here," thought Venters, "and let her grave be as
much a mystery as her life was."
For the girl's few words, the look of her eyes, the prayer, had
strangely touched Venters.
"She was only a girl," he soliloquized. "What was she to Oldring?
Rustlers don't have wives nor sisters nor daughters. She was
bad--that's all. But somehow...well, she may not have willingly
become the companion of rustlers. That prayer of hers to God for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: would have given those men of society eaten up with jealousy of your
literary fame a triumph over you--ah! give me leave to say you have
attained the height of private statesmanship."
"Yes, you are a statesman," said Nathan. "It is as clever as it is
difficult to avenge a woman without defending her."
"The princess is one of those heroines of the legitimist party, and it
is the duty of all men of honor to protect her quand meme," replied
d'Arthez, coldly. "What she has done for the cause of her masters
would excuse all follies."
"He keeps his own counsel!" said Nathan to Blondet.
"Precisely as if the princess were worth it," said Rastignac, joining
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: and my cunning more than my strength. Therefore let it please
your knighthood to dismount."
"It shall please my knighthood to chastise thy presumption,"
said the knight, springing from his saddle.
Hereupon, which in those days was usually the result of a meeting
between any two persons anywhere, they proceeded to fight.
The knight had in an uncommon degree both strength and skill:
the forester had less strength, but not less skill than the knight,
and showed such a mastery of his weapon as reduced the latter
to great admiration.
They had not fought many minutes by the forest clock, the sun;
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