| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: take another counsel, the counsel of Maxtla;' and coming to the
litter on which I lay, swiftly Otomie rent my robes from me leaving
me almost naked to the waist, and unwound the bandages from my
wounded limb, then lifted me up so that I rested upon my sound
foot.
'Look!' she cried in a piercing voice, and pointing to the scars
and unhealed wounds upon my face and leg; 'look on the work of the
Teule and the Tlascalan, see how the foe is dealt with who
surrenders to them. Yield if you will, desert us if you will, but
I say that then your own bodies shall be marked in a like fashion,
till not an ounce of gold is left that can minister to the greed of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: thy treachery; if thou darest to disobey my directions, thy
wretched life, be sure, shall answer it."
"I know," said the fellow, looking down, "that you have power on
earth, however you came by it; you can do what nae other man can
do, baith by physic and foresight; and the gold is shelled down
when ye command, as fast as I have seen the ash-keys fall in a
frosty morning in October. I will not disobey you."
"Begone, then, and relieve me of thy hateful presence."
The robber set spurs to his horse, and rode off without reply.
Hobbie Elliot had, in the meanwhile, pursued his journey rapidly,
harassed by those oppressive and indistinct fears that all was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Captain Stormfield by Mark Twain: And moreover, it's one of the biggest and finest and - "
"There, there!" says he, "no time here for conversation. We don't
deal in cities here. Where are you from in a GENERAL way?"
"Oh," I says, "I beg your pardon. Put me down for California."
I had him AGAIN, Peters! He puzzled a second, then he says, sharp
and irritable -
"I don't know any such planet - is it a constellation?"
"Oh, my goodness!" says I. "Constellation, says you? No - it's a
State."
"Man, we don't deal in States here. WILL you tell me where you are
from IN GENERAL - AT LARGE, don't you understand?"
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