| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: walked slowly along the edge of the water. He struck the trail of the Indians
where it crossed the creek, just where he expected. There were several
moccasin tracks in the wet sand and, in some of the depressions made by the
heels the rounded edges of the imprints were still smooth and intact. The
little pools of muddy water, which still lay in these hollows, were other
indications to his keen eyes that the Indians had passed this point early that
morning.
The trail led up the hill and far into the woods. Never in doubt the hunter
kept on his course; like a shadow he passed from tree to tree and from bush to
bush; silently, cautiously, but rapidly he followed the tracks of the Indians.
When he had penetrated the dark backwoods of the Black Forest tangled
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: sources of forbidden knowledge.
"Sister," replied the sufferer, "he who is dying of thirst cannot
refrain from drinking even poisoned water. She who suffers under
suspense must seek information, even were the powers which offer
it unhallowed and infernal. I go to learn my fate alone, and
this very evening will I know it; the sun that rises to-morrow
shall find me, if not more happy, at least more resigned."
"Sister," said Lady Bothwell, "if you are determined upon this
wild step, you shall not go alone. If this man be an impostor,
you may be too much agitated by your feelings to detect his
villainy. If, which I cannot believe, there be any truth in what
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: criminals) 78,966--and we have an army of nearly two million:
belonging to the submerged classes. To this there must be added at the
very least, another million, representing those dependent upon the
criminal, lunatic and other classes, not enumerated here, and the more
or less helpless of the class immediately above the houseless and
starving. This brings my total to three millions, or, to put it
roughly to one-tenth of the population. According to Lord Brabazon and
Mr. Samuel Smith, "between two and three millions of our population
are always pauperised and degraded." Mr. Chamberlain says there is a
"population equal to that of the metropolis,--that is, between four
and five millions--"which has remained constantly in a state of
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