| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan nodded his head. He was a man of few words,
and possibly it was for this reason as much as any that
Kadour ben Saden had taken to him, for if there be one
thing that an Arab despises it is a talkative man.
All the balance of the day Abdul caught glimpses of the
horsemen in their rear. They remained always at about the
same distance. During the occasional halts for rest, and
at the longer halt at noon, they approached no closer.
"They are waiting for darkness," said Kadour ben Saden.
And darkness came before they reached Bou Saada. The
last glimpse that Abdul had of the grim, white-robed figures
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: draught. A pair of pistols and a dagger, mounted with gold, were
displayed near the head of the bed, being the arms for the night,
which were presented to honoured guests, rather, it may be
supposed, in the way of ceremony than from any apprehension of
danger. We must not omit to mention, what was more to the credit
of the manners of the time, that in a small recess, illuminated
by a taper, were disposed two hassocks of velvet and gold,
corresponding with the bed furniture, before a desk of carved
ebony. This recess had formerly been the private oratory of the
abbot; but the crucifix was removed, and instead there were
placed on the desk, two Books of Common Prayer, richly bound, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: Beside that isle, toward the east, be two other isles. And men
clepe that one Orille, and that other Argyte, of the which all the
land is mine of gold and silver. And those isles be right where
that the Red Sea departeth from the sea ocean. And in those isles
men see there no stars so clearly as in other places. For there
appear no stars, but only one clear star that men clepe Canapos.
And there is not the moon seen in all the lunation, save only the
second quarter.
In the isle also of this Taprobane be great hills of gold, that
pismires keep full diligently. And they fine the pured gold, and
cast away the un-pured. And these pismires be great as hounds, so
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