| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: Americans.
Last night's and to-day's trains carried many Americans from
Pearson, Madera, and other localities outside the Mormon
settlements. Refugees from Mexico continued to pour into El
Paso. About one hundred came last night, the majority of whom
were men. Heretofore few men came.
Madeline read on in feverish absorption. It was not a real war,
but a starving, robbing, burning, hopeless revolution. Five men
executed for alleged offenses of a trivial nature! What chance
had, then, a Federal prisoner, an enemy to be feared, an American
cowboy in the clutches of those crazed rebels?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Captain Stormfield by Mark Twain: that? - on Prince Gortschakoff, for instance?"
"I reckon not, Sandy."
"Well, this is Russia - only more so. There's not the shadow of a
republic about it anywhere. There are ranks, here. There are
viceroys, princes, governors, sub-governors, sub-sub-governors, and
a hundred orders of nobility, grading along down from grand-ducal
archangels, stage by stage, till the general level is struck, where
there ain't any titles. Do you know what a prince of the blood is,
on earth?"
"No."
"Well, a prince of the blood don't belong to the royal family
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson: she had her own way; I was her father. Besides I had taken
quite a liking to the girl, and meant to stay with her for
good. But I tell you what it is, Dick, since she has trifled
with you - Oh, yes, she did though! - and since her old
papa's not good enough for her - the devil take her, say I.'
'You will be kind to her at least?' said Dick.
'I never was unkind to a living soul,' replied the Admiral.
'Firm I can be, but not unkind.'
'Well,' said Dick, offering his hand, 'God bless you, and
farewell.'
The Admiral swore by all his gods he should not go. 'Dick,'
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