| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: drew it far beneath the dock. Scarcely had he done so
ere a party of armored knights and men-at-arms clanked
out upon the planks above him from the mouth of the
dark alley. Here they stopped as though for consulta-
tion and plainly could the listener below hear every
word of their conversation.
"De Montfort," said one, "what thinkest thou of it?
Can it be that the Queen is right and that Richard lies
dead beneath these black waters?"
"No, De Clare," replied a deep voice, which De Vac
recognized as that of the Earl of Leicester. "The hand
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Massimilla Doni by Honore de Balzac: star opening the vistas above; have you never mounted on that beam
which guides you to the sky, to the heart of the first causes which
move the worlds?"
To their hearers, the Duke and Capraja were playing a game of which
the premises were unknown.
"Genovese's voice thrills through every fibre," said Capraja.
"And la Tinti's fires the blood," replied the Duke.
"What a paraphrase of happy love is that /cavatina/!" Capraja went on.
"Ah! Rossini was young when he wrote that interpretation of
effervescent ecstasy. My heart filled with renewed blood, a thousand
cravings tingled in my veins. Never have sounds more angelic delivered
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: administration lies in the township. It forms the common centre
of the interests and affections of the citizens. But this ceases
to be the case as we descend to States in which knowledge is less
generally diffused, and where the township consequently offers
fewer guarantees of a wise and active administration. As we
leave New England, therefore, we find that the importance of the
town is gradually transferred to the county, which becomes the
centre of administration, and the intermediate power between the
Government and the citizen. In Massachusetts the business of the
county is conducted by the Court of Sessions, which is composed
of a quorum named by the Governor and his council; but the county
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