| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: suppose that he was among those in front. This journey
from the camp to Tomsk, performed under the lashes and
spear-points of the soldiers, proved fatal to many, and ter-
rible to all. The prisoners traveled across the steppe, over a
road made still more dusty by the passage of the Emir and
his vanguard. Orders had been given to march rapidly.
The short halts were rare. The hundred miles under a
burning sky seemed interminable, though they were per-
formed as rapidly as possible.
The country, which extends from the right of the Obi
to the base of the spur detached from the Sayanok Moun-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: in front of the house and keeping every other young man away."
Sara Lee smiled.
"He's only been lying on the doormat, Aunt Harriet," she observed. "I
don't believe he knows how to bark."
"Oh, he's mild enough. He may change after marriage. Some do. But,"
she added hastily, "he'll be a good husband. He's that sort."
Suddenly something that had been taking shape in Sara Lee's small head,
quite unknown to her, developed identity and speech.
"But I'm not going to marry him just yet," she said.
Aunt Harriet's eyes fell on the photograph with its face to the wall,
and she started.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy: ocular reminder, by its unfitness for modern lives, of the
fragility to which these have declined. The highest architectural
cunning could have done nothing to make Hintock House dry and
salubrious; and ruthless ignorance could have done little to make
it unpicturesque. It was vegetable nature's own home; a spot to
inspire the painter and poet of still life--if they did not suffer
too much from the relaxing atmosphere--and to draw groans from the
gregariously disposed. Grace descended the green escarpment by a
zigzag path into the drive, which swept round beneath the slope.
The exterior of the house had been familiar to her from her
childhood, but she had never been inside, and the approach to
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