| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: have been a man, she could not say. She listened for some
outcry from above--for the always-fearsome call, "Man overboard!"
but it did not come. All was silence on the ship above--all
was silence in the sea below.
The girl decided that she had but seen a bundle of refuse
thrown overboard by one of the ship's crew, and a moment
later sought her berth.
Chapter 13
The Wreck of the "Lady Alice"
The next morning at breakfast Tarzan's place was vacant.
Miss Strong was mildly curious, for Mr. Caldwell had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: great height of his lodger, the disproportionate breadth of
his shoulders, and the strange particulars of his instalment,
all pointed to the same conclusion.
The vesta had now burned to his fingers; and taking the coat
upon his arm, Somerset hastily returned to the lighted
drawing-room. There, with a mixture of fear and admiration,
he pored upon its goodly proportions and the regularity and
softness of the pile. The sight of a large pier-glass put
another fancy in his head. He donned the fur-coat; and
standing before the mirror in an attitude suggestive of a
Russian prince, he thrust his hands into the ample pockets.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac: borderland between reality and dreams, so that you can scarcely tell
to which side they most belong.
"The room, the ancient Hall of Audience, stood above a row of cellars
with grated air-holes, once the prison cells of the old court-house,
now converted into a kitchen. I do not know that the magnificent lofty
chimney-piece of the Louvre, with its marvelous carving, seemed more
wonderful to me than the vast open hearth of the salon d'Esgrignon
when I saw it for the first time. It was covered like a melon with a
network of tracery. Over it stood an equestrian portrait of Henri
III., under whom the ancient duchy of appanage reverted to the crown;
it was a great picture executed in low relief, and set in a carved and
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