| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: call. Guided by her voice, he had just in time reached Ivan
Ogareff's room, and entered by the open door.
"Fear nothing, Nadia," said he, placing himself between
her and Ogareff.
"Ah!" cried the girl, "take care, brother! The traitor
is armed! He can see!"
Ogareff rose, and, thinking he had an immeasurable ad-
vantage over the blind man leaped upon him. But with
one hand, the blind man grasped the arm of his enemy,
seized his weapon, and hurled him again to the ground.
Pale with rage and shame, Ogareff remembered that he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: --a right and power which will be ever present, and will form a wall
of fire for his protection.
One of the invaluable compensations of the late Rebellion
is the highly instructive disclosure it made of the true source
of danger to republican government. Whatever may be tolerated
in monarchical and despotic governments, no republic is safe
that tolerates a privileged class, or denies to any of its citizens
equal rights and equal means to maintain them. What was theory
before the war has been made fact by the war.
There is cause to be thankful even for rebellion. It is an impressive teacher,
though a stern and terrible one. In both characters it has come to us,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: would enable him better to provide for Fanny himself.
Fanny soon learnt how unnecessary had been her fears of a removal;
and her spontaneous, untaught felicity on the discovery,
conveyed some consolation to Edmund for his disappointment
in what he had expected to be so essentially serviceable
to her. Mrs. Norris took possession of the White House,
the Grants arrived at the Parsonage, and these events over,
everything at Mansfield went on for some time as usual.
The Grants showing a disposition to be friendly and sociable,
gave great satisfaction in the main among their new acquaintance.
They had their faults, and Mrs. Norris soon found them out.
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