| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: what did she do? She started to drop back to my side.
"Go on!" I cried. "Make for the other shore, and then
follow down until you find my friends. Tell them that I
sent you, and with orders that they are to protect you. Go
on! Go on!"
But she only waited until we were again swimming side by
side, and I saw that she had drawn her long knife, and was
holding it between her teeth.
"Do as I tell you!" I said to her sharply, but she shook her
head.
The lioness was overhauling us rapidly. She was swimming
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: the Golden River. "The little king looked very kind," thought he.
"I don't think he will turn me into a black stone." So he went to
the priest, and the priest gave him some holy water as soon as he
asked for it. Then Gluck took some bread in his basket, and the
bottle of water, and set off very early for the mountains.
If the glacier had occasioned a great deal of fatigue in his
brothers, it was twenty times worse for him, who was neither so
strong nor so practiced on the mountains. He had several very bad
falls, lost his basket and bread, and was very much frightened at
the strange noises under the ice. He lay a long time to rest on the
grass, after he had got over, and began to climb the hill just in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: very much. As she stood with downcast eyes, not liking to look up
and meet his, he gazed upon her with an approving air, and then
turned to her mother.
'My friend Gabriel (whose acquaintance I only made this very
evening) should be a happy man, Mrs Varden.'
'Ah!' sighed Mrs V., shaking her head.
'Ah!' echoed Miggs.
'Is that the case?' said Mr Chester, compassionately. 'Dear me!'
'Master has no intentions, sir,' murmured Miggs as she sidled up
to him, 'but to be as grateful as his natur will let him, for
everythink he owns which it is in his powers to appreciate. But we
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