| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: complish it under conditions which made it not only perilous
but expensive?
"Well," said he, "if she takes the route to Perm, it is
nearly impossible but that I shall fall in with her. Then, I
will watch over her without her suspecting it; and as she
appears to me as anxious as myself to reach Irkutsk, she
will cause me no delay."
But one thought leads to another. Michael Strogoff had
till now thought only of doing a kind action; but now an-
other idea flashed into his brain; the question presented it-
self under quite a new aspect.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cruise of the Jasper B. by Don Marquis: more than a dream; but I have dreamed that dream. And anyone who
dreams that dream will have a reverence for his spoken word no
matter to whom it is passed. I may be a fool to fight this man;
well then, that is the kind of fool I am! Indeed, I know I am a
fool by the judgments of this age. But I have never truly lived
in this age. I have lived in the past; I have held to the dream;
I have believed in the bright adventure; I have walked with the
generous, chivalric spirits of the great ages; they have come to
me out of my books and dwelt with me and been my companions, and
the realities of time and place have been unreal in their
presence. I see myself so walking always. It may be that I am a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo: "walk right into the lion's cage and put his head in the lion's
mouth." The children were in a state of nerves that did credit
to Polly as an entertainer, when Hasty broke in upon the song.
"When you get a minute I want ter tell yer somethin'."
"I have one right now." And turning to the eager mites at her
side, Polly told them to run along into the grove, and that she'd
come pretty soon to teach them a new game.
The youngsters went screaming and laughing on their way, and she
breathed a sigh of relief as she threw herself down on the rustic
seat that encircled the elm tree.
"What is it, Hasty?" she asked, suspecting that he was in trouble
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