| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: went to the beach. She engaged me every moment when at home, and I
faithfully performed all my tasks. I clapped to the door on self-
investigation--locked it against any analysis or reasoning upon any
circumstance connected with Mr. Uxbridge. The only piece of
treachery to my code that I was guilty of was the putting of the
leaf which I brought home on Sunday between the leaves of that poem
whose motto is,
"Mariana in the moated grange."
On Saturday morning, nearly a week after I saw him on my walk,
Aunt Eliza proposed that we should go to Turo Street on a shopping
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: I was almost well. Now it was that Guatemoc came to me again,
saying that he had been bidden by Cuitlahua the emperor, to command
me to accompany him, Guatemoc, on a service of trust and secrecy.
And indeed the nature of the service showed how great a confidence
the leaders of the Aztecs now placed in me, for it was none other
than the hiding away of the treasure that had been recaptured from
the Spaniards on the Night of Fear, and with it much more from the
secret stores of the empire.
At the fall of darkness we started, some of the great lords,
Guatemoc and I, and coming to the water's edge, we found ten large
canoes, each laden with something that was hidden by cotton cloths.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: "you always dismissed it by saying, 'Paz will settle that.' You never
wrote to any one but Paz. When we returned here everybody kept saying,
'the captain, the captain.' If I want the carriage--'the captain.' Is
there a bill to pay--'the captain.' If my horse is not properly
bitted, they must speak to Captain Paz. In short, it is like a game of
dominoes--Paz is everywhere. I hear of nothing but Paz, but I never
see Paz. Who and what is Paz? Why don't you bring forth your Paz?"
"Isn't everything going on right?" asked the count, taking the
"bocchettino" of his narghile from his lips.
"Everything is going on so right that other people with an income of
two hundred thousand francs would ruin themselves by going at our
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