| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: you, for indeed you are not fit.'
Sure enough Mr. Archer's pallor and agitation had continued
to increase; his cheeks were deathly, his clenched fingers
trembled pitifully. 'The weakness is physical,' he sighed,
and had nearly fallen. Nance led him from the spot, and he
was no sooner back in the tower-stair, than he fell heavily
against the wall and put his arm across his eyes. A cup of
brandy had to be brought him before he could descend to
breakfast; and the perfection of Nance's dream was for the
first time troubled.
Jonathan was waiting for them at table, with yellow, blood-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne: and the Knights of Malta."
"Clearly," replied the major; "but what metal do you calculate
upon employing?"
"Simply cast iron," said General Morgan.
"But," interrupted the major, "since the weight of a shot is
proportionate to its volume, an iron ball of nine feet in
diameter would be of tremendous weight."
"Yes, if it were solid, not if it were hollow."
"Hollow? then it would be a shell?"
"Yes, a shell," replied Barbicane; "decidely it must be. A solid
shot of 108 inches would weigh more than 200,000 pounds, a weight
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: his paws. He spun around so fast that it kept me dancing. I flung the noose
and caught his right paw. Hiram bawled something that made me all the more
heedless, and in tightening the noose I ran in too close. The bear gave me
a slashing cuff on the side of the head, and I went down like a tenpin.
"Git a hitch thar--to the saplin'!" roared Hiram, as I staggered to my
feet. "Rustle now--hurry!"
What with my ringing head, and fingers all thumbs, and Hiram roaring at me,
I made a mess of tying the knot. Then Hiram let go his rope, and when the
cub dropped to the ground the rope flew up over the branch. Cubby leaped so
quickly that he jerked the rope away before Hiram could pick it up, and one
hard pull loosened my hitch on the sapling.
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