| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to the test.
Tarzan watched the blacks lolling in the shade.
They were exhausted. Already several of them slept.
He crept closer, pausing just above them. Not a leaf rustled
before his stealthy advance. He waited in the infinite
patience of the beast of prey. Presently but two of the
warriors remained awake, and one of these was dozing.
Tarzan of the Apes gathered himself, and as he did so the
black who did not sleep arose and passed around to the rear
of the cage. The ape-boy followed just above his head.
Taug was eyeing the warrior and emitting low growls.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: were actual events. But even if the tendency of criticism
had run the other way, this ballad would have gone far to
prove itself. I can well understand the reluctance of worthy
persons in this matter; for of course it is unpleasant to
think of a man of genius as one who held, in the words of
Marina to Boult-
"A place, for which the pained'st fiend
Of hell would not in reputation change."
But beyond this natural unwillingness, the whole difficulty
of the case springs from a highly virtuous ignorance of life.
Paris now is not so different from the Paris of then; and the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Two Poets by Honore de Balzac: before long, no doubt," Lucien said, as he made an end, "and then I
will look down on these proud people; I will marry Mme. de Bargeton. I
read to-night in her eyes a love as great as mine for her. Yes, she
felt all that I felt; she comforted me; she is as great and noble as
she is gracious and beautiful. She will never give me up."
"It is time that life was made smooth for him, is it not?" murmured
David, and for answer Eve pressed his arm without speaking. David
guessed her thoughts, and began at once to tell Lucien about his own
plans.
If Lucien was full of his troubles, the lovers were quite as full of
themselves. So absorbed were they, so eager that Lucien should approve
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