| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: 'Colonel Gordon,' said the Prince, 'oblige me so far, and set me
right with Herr von Hohenstockwitz.'
'Gentlemen,' said the Colonel, 'you are both arrested on the same
warrant in the name of the Princess Seraphina, acting regent,
countersigned by Prime Minister Freiherr von Gondremark, and dated
the day before yesterday, the twelfth. I reveal to you the secrets
of the prison-house,' he added.
'Otto,' said Gotthold, 'I ask you to pardon my suspicions.'
'Gotthold,' said the Prince, 'I am not certain I can grant you
that.'
'Your Highness is, I am sure, far too magnanimous to hesitate,' said
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: creditors to find out how much she owed; they took fright, and in
two days she would have been sold up."
"And now it is all paid?"
"More or less."
"And who has supplied the money?"
"The Comte de N. Ah, my dear friend, there are men made on
purpose for such occasions. To cut a long story short he gave her
twenty thousand francs, but he has had his way at last. He knows
quite well that Marguerite is not in love with him; but he is
very nice with her all the same. As you have seen, he has
repurchased her horses, he has taken her jewels out of pawn, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Long Odds by H. Rider Haggard: into the gun, and as I did so the lioness rose again and came crawling
towards me on her fore-paws, roaring and groaning, and with such an
expression of diabolical fury on her countenance as I have not often
seen. I shot her again through the chest, and she fell over on to her
side quite dead.
"That was the first and last time that I ever killed a brace of lions
right and left, and, what is more, I never heard of anybody else doing
it. Naturally I was considerably pleased with myself, and having again
loaded up, I went on to look for the black-maned beauty who had killed
Kaptein. Slowly, and with the greatest care, I proceeded up the kloof,
searching every bush and tuft of grass as I went. It was wonderfully
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