The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Yon balcony. How now? Her light still burns.
Move warily. Make fast the gate, Francisco.
(Exeunt. Re-enter CRUZADO and BARTOLOME.)
Bart. They went in at the gate. Hark! I hear them in the
garden. (Tries the gate.) Bolted again! Vive Cristo! Follow me
over the wall.
(They climb the wall.)
SCENE XI. -- PRECIOSA'S bedchamber. Midnight. She is sleeping in
an armchair, in an undress. DOLORES watching her.
Dol. She sleeps at last!
(Opens the window, and listens.)
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: NUM 26:38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the
family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of
Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:
NUM 26:39 Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the
family of the Huphamites.
NUM 26:40 And the sons of Bela were ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family
of the Ardites: and of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
NUM 26:41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they
that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.
NUM 26:42 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham,
the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: his head, to signify that the chief had made no mistake
in his suspicions. Then he turned to those behind him and,
pointing to the sleeping man, motioned for them to seize
and bind him.
A moment later a dozen brutes had leaped upon the surprised
Tarzan, and so quickly did they work that he was securely
bound before he could make half an effort to escape.
Then they threw him down upon his back, and as his eyes
turned toward the crowd that stood near, they fell upon the
malign face of Nikolas Rokoff.
A sneer curled the Russian's lips. He stepped quite close
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