| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: field -- boots, spurs, half tightly-fitting trousers, brown
pelisse, trimmed with fur and ornamented with yellow braid.
On his breast glittered a cross and several medals.
Michael Strogoff belonged to the special corps of the
Czar's couriers, ranking as an officer among those picked
men. His most discernible characteristic -- particularly in
his walk, his face, in the whole man, and which the Czar
perceived at a glance -- was, that he was "a fulfiller of
orders." He therefore possessed one of the most service-
able qualities in Russia -- one which, as the celebrated novel-
ist Tourgueneff says, "will lead to the highest positions in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: how at last he took refuge beneath the wing of the white chief,
here in the kraal Jazi, and lived, spat upon, an outcast, until
at length he fell sick, as such men are apt to do, and the
Thing-that-never-should-have-been-born was sent for to doctor
him. And you know also how he lies dying, within him an agony as
though he had swallowed a red hot spear, and before him a great
blackness peopled by the ghosts of those whom he has slain, and
of his forefathers whose House he has pulled down and burned."
Zikali ceased, and thrusting his hideous head to within an inch
or two of that of the dying man, he glowered at him with his
fierce and fiery eves. Then he began to whisper into the king's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: of the scaffold, the more fully, of course, it was crowded
with curious people.
These were the same who, not satisfied with the blood which
they had shed three days before, were now craving for a new
victim.
And scarcely had Cornelius made his appearance than a fierce
groan ran through the whole street, spreading all over the
yard, and re-echoing from the streets which led to the
scaffold, and which were likewise crowded with spectators.
The scaffold indeed looked like an islet at the confluence
of several rivers.
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