| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Drama on the Seashore by Honore de Balzac: "'Jacques, my child, take care; do not swear if it is not true; you
can repent, you can amend; there is still time.'
"And she wept.
"'You are a this and a that,' he said; 'you have always wanted to ruin
me.'
"Cambremer turned white and said,--
"'Such language to your mother increases your crime. Come, to the
point! Will you swear?'
"'Yes.'
"'Then,' Pierre said, 'was there upon your gold piece the little cross
which the sardine merchant who paid it to me scratched on ours?'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: crest of the mountain, we were not shut in by a dense thicket, but
stood upon a bare ridge of granite in the centre of a ragged
clearing.
I shut my eyes for a moment, drew a few long breaths of the
glorious breeze, and then looked out upon a wonder and a delight
beyond description.
A soft, dazzling splendour filled the air. Snowy banks and drifts
of cloud were floating slowly over a wide and wondrous land. Vast
sweeps of forest, shining waters, mountains near and far, the
deepest green and the palest blue, changing colours and glancing
lights, and all so silent, so strange, so far away, that it seemed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: Madeline had not time to grasp the sense of his last words.
Stewart had convulsively sprung upward, white as chalk. As he
leaped at Hawe Stillwell interposed his huge bulk and wrapped his
arms around Stewart. There was a brief, whirling, wrestling
struggle. Stewart appeared to be besting the old cattleman.
"Help, boys, help!" yelled Stillwell. "I can't hold him. Hurry,
or there's goin' to be blood spilled!"
Nick Steele and several cowboys leaped to Stillwell's assistance.
Stewart, getting free, tossed one aside and then another. They
closed in on him. For an instant a furious straining wrestle of
powerful bodies made rasp and shock and blow. Once Stewart
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