| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: the coast afforded.
For weeks Armstrong, guided by Luis, followed his
regular route among the mountains. After he had col-
lected an arroba of the precious metal, winning a profit
of nearly $5,000, the heads of the lightened mules were
turned down-trail again. Where the head of the Guarico
River springs from a great gash in the mountain-side,
Luis halted the train.
"Half a day's journey from here, Seņor," said he,
"is the village of Tacuzama, which we have never visited.
I think many ounces of gold may be procured there. It
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain: death into the world. That was a mistake--it had been better to
keep the remark to myself; it only gave her an idea--she could
save the sick buzzard, and furnish fresh meat to the despondent
lions and tigers. I advised her to keep away from the tree. She
said she wouldn't. I foresee trouble. Will emigrate.
Wednesday
I have had a variegated time. I escaped that night, and rode a
horse all night as fast as he could go, hoping to get clear out of
the Park and hide in some other country before the trouble should
begin; but it was not to be. About an hour after sunup, as I was
riding through a flowery plain where thousands of animals were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: grains of tartar emetic, which he wanted to mix in a wash
according to a prescription of Dr. Castaing. But he did not tell
the chemist that he was Dr. Castaing himself. An hour later Cas-
taing arrived at the shop of another chemist, Chevalier, with
whom he had already some acquaintance; he had bought acetate of
morphia from him some months before, and had discussed with him
then the effects of vegetable poisons. On this particular
morning he bought of his assistant thirty-six grains of acetate
of morphia, paying, as a medical man, three francs fifty centimes
for it instead of the usual price of four francs. Later in the
morning Castaing returned to Saint Cloud, a distance of ten miles
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