| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: went slowly on; the man slackened his pace and fell behind so that he
could still keep her in sight. He might have been her very shadow.
Nine o'clock struck as the silent man and woman passed again by the
Church of Saint Laurent. It is in the nature of things that calm must
succeed to violent agitation, even in the weakest soul; for if feeling
is infinite, our capacity to feel is limited. So, as the stranger lady
met with no harm from her supposed persecutor, she tried to look upon
him as an unknown friend anxious to protect her. She thought of all
the circumstances in which the stranger had appeared, and put them
together, as if to find some ground for this comforting theory, and
felt inclined to credit him with good intentions rather than bad.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: was imprisoned, I heard a man's voice quite close to me.
The speaker had evidently but just entered, for he
spoke in a loud tone, demanding the whereabouts of
one whom he had come in search of.
"Where are you, woman?" he cried. "Hooja has sent
for you."
And then a woman's voice answered him:
"And what does Hooja want of me?"
The voice was Dian's. I groped in the direction of the
sounds, feeling for the hole.
"He wishes you brought to the Island of Trees,"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: unarmed, and, laying down his weapons, advanced alone to the bank,
making all signs of amity. They were returned with interest by the
old man, and Amyas's next care was to bring forward the fish which
the fair nymph had left behind, and, through the medium of the
Indian lad, to give the cacique (for so he seemed to be) to
understand that he wished to render every one his own. This offer
was received, as Amyas expected, with great applause, and the canoe
came alongside; but the crew still seemed afraid to land. Amyas
bade his men throw the fish one by one into the boat; and then
proclaimed by the boy's mouth, as was his custom with all Indians,
that he and his were enemies of the Spaniards, and on their way to
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