| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: "He is right," said Gourville, as he drew Fouquet's
attention, by a gesture, to another point. He showed him a
low-built tumbrel, drawn by two horses, upon which rocked
two strong gibbets, bound together, back to back, by chains,
whilst an archer, seated upon the cross-beam, suffered, as
well as he could, with his head cast down, the comments of a
hundred vagabonds, who guessed the destination of the
gibbets, and were escorting them to the Hotel de Ville.
Fouquet started. "It is decided, you see," said Gourville.
"But it is not done," replied Fouquet.
"Oh, do not flatter yourself, monseigneur; if they have thus
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: gymnastics on his mother's lap, and thence on to the floor, with
accompaniment of laughter.
'Are you going to sleep alone?' asked the servant lass.
'There's little fear of that,' says Master Gilliard.
'You sleep alone at school,' objected his mother. 'Come, come, you
must be a man.'
But he protested that school was a different matter from the
holidays; that there were dormitories at school; and silenced the
discussion with kisses: his mother smiling, no one better pleased
than she.
There certainly was, as he phrased it, very little fear that he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela: uor.
"Glory be to God and by His Will," said Demetrio,
"tonight or tomorrow at the latest we'll meet the Federals.
What do you say, boys, shall we let them find their way
about these trails?"
The ragged crew jumped to their feet, uttering shrill
cries of joy; then their jubilation tamed sinister and they
gave vent to threats, oaths and imprecations.
"Of course, we can't ten how strong they are," said
Demetrio as his glance traveled over their faces in
scrutiny.
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