| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: enter the glade, leading and half supporting a third savage.
They helped this Indian to the log, where he sat down slowly and wearily,
holding one hand over his breast. He was a magnificent specimen of Indian
manhood, almost a giant in stature, with broad shoulders in proportion to his
height. His head-dress and the gold rings which encircled his bare muscular
arms indicated that he was a chief high in power. The seven eagle plumes in
his scalp-lock represented seven warriors that he had killed in battle. Little
sticks of wood plaited in his coal black hair and painted different colors
showed to an Indian eye how many times this chief had been wounded by bullet,
knife, or tomahawk.
His face was calm. If he suffered he allowed no sign of it to escape him. He
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac: the nature of the man. Such a lover is like a gambler who would be
dishonored in his own eyes if he did not repay the sum he borrowed
from a waiter in a gaming-house; but will shrink from no crime, will
leave his wife and children without a penny, and rob and murder, if so
he may come to the gaming-table with a full purse, and his honor
remain untarnished among the frequenters of that fatal abode. So it
was with Castanier.
He had begun by installing Aquiline is a modest fourth-floor dwelling,
the furniture being of the simplest kind. But when he saw the girl's
beauty and great qualities, when he had known inexpressible and
unlooked-for happiness with her, he began to dote upon her; and longed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: when they burnt your eyes!"
"Very much," answered Michael, turning towards
Nicholas as if he could see him.
"Did you not weep?"
"Yes."
"I should have wept too. To think that one could never
again see those one loves. But they can see you, however;
that's perhaps some consolation!"
"Yes, perhaps. Tell me, my friend," continued Michael,
"have you never seen me anywhere before?"
"You, little father? No, never."
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