| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: with St. George!
The next Sunday at four o'clock he called in Manchester Square,
where his secret wish was gratified by his finding Miss Fancourt
alone. She was in a large bright friendly occupied room, which was
painted red all over, draped with the quaint cheap florid stuffs
that are represented as coming from southern and eastern countries,
where they are fabled to serve as the counterpanes of the
peasantry, and bedecked with pottery of vivid hues, ranged on
casual shelves, and with many water-colour drawings from the hand
(as the visitor learned) of the young lady herself, commemorating
with a brave breadth the sunsets, the mountains, the temples and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: whelmed at Kolyvan, as they will be everywhere where yours
meet them."
"And what advice does your devotion to the Tartar
cause suggest?" asked the Emir, after a few moments'
silence.
"My advice," answered Ivan Ogareff quickly, "is to
march to meet the sun. It is to give the grass of the
eastern steppes to the Turcoman horses to consume. It
is to take Irkutsk, the capital of the eastern provinces, and
with it a hostage, the possession of whom is worth a whole
country. In the place of the Czar, the Grand Duke his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: expression of horror--yes, of terror.
He could endure it no longer.
"Mother of God! Monsieur--shoot!" he screamed.
But Tarzan did not raise his pistol. Instead, he advanced
toward De Coude, and when D'Arnot and Monsieur Flaubert,
misinterpreting his intention, would have rushed between
them, he raised his left hand in a sign of remonstrance.
"Do not fear," he said to them, "I shall not harm him."
It was most unusual, but they halted. Tarzan advanced
until he was quite close to De Coude.
"There must have been something wrong with monsieur's
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