| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: whom you so bravely rescued us told us that much."
"Thank God!" whispered Billy Byrne.
"What made you think he was dead?" inquired the officer,
looking closely at Byrne as though trying to place him.
Another man might have attempted to evade the question
but the new Billy Byrne was no coward in any department of
his moral or physical structure.
"Because I thought that I had killed him," he replied, "the
day that we took the Lotus."
Captain Norris looked at the speaker in undisguised horror.
"You!" he cried. "You were one of those damned cut-throats!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: on her forehead turned white as snow, and she had changed from youth to
age.
And she stood far off on the bank of the river. And she said, "For what do
I go to this far land which no one has ever reached? Oh, I am alone! I am
utterly alone!"
And Reason, that old man, said to her, "Silence! What do you hear?"
And she listened intently, and she said, "I hear a sound of feet, a
thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands, and they beat this
way!"
He said, "They are the feet of those that shall follow you. Lead on! make
a track to the water's edge! Where you stand now, the ground will be
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: nostros expectabat proelioque abstinebat. Multo denique die per
exploratores Caesar cognovit et montem a suis teneri et Helvetios castra,
movisse et Considium timore perterritum quod non vidisset pro viso sibi
renuntiavisse. Eo die quo consuerat intervallo hostes sequitur et milia
passuum tria ab eorum castris castra ponit.
Postridie eius diei, quod omnino biduum supererat, cum exercitui
frumentum metiri oporteret, et quod a Bibracte, oppido Haeduorum longe
maximo et copiosissimo, non amplius milibus passuum XVIII aberat, rei
frumentariae prospiciendum existimavit; iter ab Helvetiis avertit
ac Bibracte ire contendit. Ea res per fugitivos L. Aemilii, decurionis
equitum Gallorum, hostibus nuntiatur. Helvetii, seu quod timore
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