| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: and anxious syce. We tried them all, and selected our mounts for
the time of our stay. The syces were small black men, lean and
well formed, accustomed to running afoot wherever their charges
went, at walk, lope or gallop. Thus in a day they covered
incredible distances over all sorts of country; but were always
at hand to seize the bridle reins when the master wished to
dismount. Like the rickshaw runners in Nairobi, they wore their
hair clipped close around their bullet heads and seemed to have
developed into a small compact hard type of their own. They ate
and slept with their horses.
Just outside the courtyard of the stables a little barred window
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: of hopeless bitterness, and came to a stop at last, face to face with
his seated master. The latter winced a little under his dependant's
eye. "Well?" he said at last, with no pretence of authority.
"You left him?"
"My horse bolted."
"I know. So did mine."
He laughed at his master mirthlessly.
"I say my horse bolted," said the man who once had a silver-studded
bridle.
"Cowards both," said the little man.
The other gnawed his knuckle through some meditative moments,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: H. Smith, was "a man of a wholly different stripe" from the one
removed, and "if left to himself he would speedily have
exterminated the whole Boxer brood, but being hampered by
'confidential instructions' from the palace, he could do little
but issue poetical proclamations, and revile his subordinates for
failure to do their duty."
When Yuan was made Governor of Shantung a number of the Boxer
leaders called upon him expecting to find in him a sympathizer
worthy of his predecessor. They told him of their great powers
and possibilities, and of how they were proof against the spears,
swords and bullets of their enemies. Yuan listened to them with
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