| The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "I have a plan," he cried. "It will require nerve and
courage on your part; but you have already shown that
you possess both. Can you endure still more?"
"I can endure anything," she replied with a brave
smile, "that may offer us even a slight chance for
escape."
"You must simulate death," he explained, "while I carry
you from the camp. I will explain to the sentries that
Mohammed Beyd has ordered me to take your body into the
jungle. This seemingly unnecessary act I shall explain
upon the grounds that Mohammed Beyd had conceived a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: It needed Diana, who, blinded by no sisterly affection, saw him exactly
as he was, and despised him accordingly, to enlighten him. It may also
be that in doing so at once she had ends of her own to serve; for Sir
Rowland was still of the company.
"Mr. Wilding afraid?" she cried, her voice so charged with derision
that it inclined to shrillness. "La! Richard, Mr. Wilding was never
afraid of any man."
"Faith!" said Rowland, although his acquaintance with Mr. Wilding
was slight and recent. "It is what I should think. He does not look
like a man familiar with fear."
Richard struck something of an attitude, his fair face flushed, his
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