| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes: just as he was about to carry his resolution into effect and ask for
their permission, lo and behold suddenly there came in through the
door of the great hall two women, as they afterwards proved to be,
draped in mourning from head to foot, one of whom approaching Don
Quixote flung herself at full length at his feet, pressing her lips to
them, and uttering moans so sad, so deep, and so doleful that she
put all who heard and saw her into a state of perplexity; and though
the duke and duchess supposed it must be some joke their servants were
playing off upon Don Quixote, still the earnest way the woman sighed
and moaned and wept puzzled them and made them feel uncertain, until
Don Quixote, touched with compassion, raised her up and made her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: to speak. Sangarre had to wait, and she waited, without
losing sight of her whom she was watching, observing her
slightest gestures, her slightest words, endeavoring to catch
the word "son" escaping from her lips, but as yet always
baffled by Marfa's taciturnity.
At the first flourish of the trumpets several officers of
high rank, followed by a brilliant escort of Usbeck horse-
men, moved to the front of the camp to receive Ivan Ogareff.
Arrived in his presence, they paid him the greatest re-
spect, and invited him to accompany them to Feofar-Khan's
tent.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: "This can never be," thought the Earl; and he stood and looked upon
the man, and bit his beard.
And the man looked up at him and smiled. "It was so my fathers did
in the ancient ages," quoth he to the Earl, "and I have neither a
better reason nor a worse."
"There is no sense in any of this," thought the Earl, "and I must
be growing old." So he had his daughter on one side, and says he:
"Many suitors have you denied, my child. But here is a very
strange matter that a man should cling so to a shoe of a horse, and
it rusty; and that he should offer it like a thing on sale, and yet
not sell it; and that he should sit there seeking a wife. If I
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