| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: `creature.' Never before to-day did I lay eyes upon him
you call Jav, nor upon your ridiculous city, of which
even the greatest nations of Barsoom have never dreamed.
"My charms are not for you, nor such as you. They
are not for sale or barter, even though the price were a
real throne. And as for using them to win your worse
than futile power--" She ended her sentence with a shrug
of her shapely shoulders, and a little scornful laugh.
When she had finished Tario was sitting upon the edge
of his couch, his feet upon the floor. He was leaning
forward with eyes no longer half closed, but wide with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: near, and all she had imagined of that had only become more true,
more dreadful and overwhelming. She stared straight away in
silence till she felt she looked an idiot; then, to say something,
to say nothing, she attempted a sound which ended in a flood of
tears.
CHAPTER XVI
Her tears helped her really to dissimulate, for she had instantly,
in so public a situation, to recover herself. They had come and
gone in half a minute, and she immediately explained them. "It's
only because I'm tired. It's that--it's that!" Then she added a
trifle incoherently: "I shall never see you again."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: as they were with me. I studied their business as thoroughly as I
studied the case of the men. I soon got from them all the
concessions we had demanded when we called the strike. It was
fortunate for us that the strike was cancelled, for we kept our
jobs and in due course got all the things that we were going to
strike for.
In fact, I got so many concessions by dickering with those
bosses that I made life a burden for them at times. I knew the
cost of every different kind of plate the mill put out, and so I
could demand a high rate of wages and support my demands with
logic. My midnight studies had not been in vain. It all came back
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