| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: from the language of therapeutics, the expectant treatment of
abuses. You will not misunderstand me,' he continued: 'a country in
the condition in which we find Grunewald, a prince such as your
Prince Otto, we must explicitly condemn; they are behind the age.
But I would look for a remedy not to brute convulsions, but to the
natural supervenience of a more able sovereign. I should amuse you,
perhaps,' added the licentiate, with a smile, 'I think I should
amuse you if I were to explain my notion of a prince. We who have
studied in the closet, no longer, in this age, propose ourselves for
active service. The paths, we have perceived, are incompatible. I
would not have a student on the throne, though I would have one near
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: A week or so after he left camp some Greaser give it away that
Rojas had a prisoner in a dobe shack near his camp. Nobody paid
much attention to what the Greaser said. He wanted money for
mescal. An' it was usual for Rojas to have prisoners. But in a
few more days it turned out pretty sure that for some reason
Rojas was holdin' Thorne.
"Now it happened when this news came Colonel Weede was in Nogales
with his staff, an' the officer left in charge didn't know how to
proceed. Rojas's camp was across the line in Mexico, an' ridin'
over there was serious business. It meant a whole lot more than
just scatterin' one Greaser camp. It was what had been botherin'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: over his rough features ere he could proceed.
"It is Richard of England's further pleasure," he said at length,
"that you have speech with a holy man; and I have met on the
passage hither with a Carmelite friar, who may fit you for your
passage. He waits without, until you are in a frame of mind to
receive him."
"Let it be instantly," said the knight. "In this also Richard is
kind. I cannot be more fit to see the good father at any time
than now; for life and I have taken farewell, as two travellers
who have arrived at the crossway, where their roads separate."
"It is well," said De Vaux slowly and solemnly; "for it irks me
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