| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: very wan and white, with great, dark circles beneath her eyes.
Waking or sleeping, it seemed that she constantly saw that
dark body dropping, swift and silent, into the cold, grim sea.
Shortly after her first appearance on deck following the
tragedy, Monsieur Thuran joined her with many expressions
of kindly solicitude.
"Oh, but it is terrible, Miss Strong," he said. "I cannot rid
my mind of it."
"Nor I," said the girl wearily. "I feel that he might have
been saved had I but given the alarm."
"You must not reproach yourself, my dear Miss Strong,"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the interval there rose from the lips of the fast-bound
white man an answering shriek, more fearsome and more terrible
than that of the jungle-beast that had roused it.
For several minutes the blacks hesitated; then, at the urging
of Rokoff and their chief, they leaped in to finish the
dance and the victim; but ere ever another spear touched the
brown hide a tawny streak of green-eyed hate and ferocity
bounded from the door of the hut in which Tarzan had been
imprisoned, and Sheeta, the panther, stood snarling beside
his master.
For an instant the blacks and the whites stood transfixed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: me."
She smiled, and would not give way to the happiness she felt,
lest their talk should exceed the conventional limits of
propriety. She had never heard the vibrating tones of a sincere
and youthful love; a few more words, and she feared for her self-
control.
"Eugene," she said, changing the conversation, "I wonder whether
you know what has been happening? All Paris will go to Mme. de
Beauseant's to-morrow. The Rochefides and the Marquis d'Ajuda
have agreed to keep the matter a profound secret, but to-morrow
the king will sign the marriage-contract, and your poor cousin
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