| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum: it has become cooled I will place it in a small
bottle; but meantime I must watch it carefully,
lest a gust of wind blow it away or scatter it.'
Unc Nunkie, Margolotte and the Magician
all stood looking at the marvelous Powder, but
Ojo was more interested just then in the Patchwork
Girl's brains. Thinking it both unfair and unkind
to deprive her of any good qualities that were
handy, the boy took down every bottle on the shelf
and poured some of the contents in Margolotte's
dish. No one saw him do this, for all were looking
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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: I cannot overcharge its reality."
Having finished this sad chain of reflections upon his perilous
condition, he entered his daughter's apartment with every nerve
bent up to the support of the argument which he was about to
sustain. Though a deceitful and ambitious man, he was not so
devoid of natural affection but that he was shocked at the part
he was about to act, in practising on the feelings of a dutiful
and affectionate child; but the recollections, that, if he
succeeded, his daughter would only be trepanned into an
advantageous match, and that, if he failed, he himself was a lost
man, were quite sufficient to drown all scruples.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: posed to them between Krasnoiarsk and Lake Baikal,
Michael therefore expected before long the appearance of
the Tartar scouts.
At each halt, Nadia climbed some hill and looked anx-
iously to the Westward, but as yet no cloud of dust had
signaled the approach of a troop of horse.
Then the march was resumed; and when Michael felt that
he was dragging poor Nadia forward too rapidly, he went
at a slower pace. They spoke little, and only of Nicholas.
The young girl recalled all that this companion of a few days
had done for them.
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