| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson: instant she was disengaged. This was the less objectionable, as
she never snored or grew distempered in complexion when she slept.
On the contrary, she looked the very picture of luxurious and
appetising ease, and woke without a start to the perfect possession
of her faculties. I am afraid she was greatly an animal, but she
was a very nice animal to have about. In this way, she had little
to do with Jean-Marie; but the sympathy which had been established
between them on the first night remained unbroken; they held
occasional conversations, mostly on household matters; to the
extreme disappointment of the Doctor, they occasionally sallied off
together to that temple of debasing superstition, the village
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: forests of Scotch fir, and of spruce too, which is not wild in
England now, though you may see plenty in every plantation. There
were oaks and alders, yews and sloes, just as there are in our
woods now. There was buck-bean in the bogs, as there is in
Larmer's and Heath pond; and white and yellow water-lilies, horn-
wort, and pond-weeds, just as there are now in our ponds. There
were wild horses, wild deer, and wild oxen, those last of an
enormous size. There were little yellow roe-deer, which will not
surprise you, for there are hundreds and thousands in Scotland to
this day; and, as you know, they will thrive well enough in our
woods now. There were beavers too: but that must not surprise
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: not look playful. Tarzan ran his brown fingers through
his thick, black hair, cocked his head upon one side,
and stared. Then he edged a bit nearer, craning his neck
to have a better look at the thing which Teeka cuddled.
Again Teeka drew back her upper lip in a warning snarl.
Tarzan reached forth a hand, cautiously, to touch the
thing which Teeka held, and Teeka, with a hideous growl,
turned suddenly upon him. Her teeth sank into the
flesh of his forearm before the ape-man could snatch
it away, and she pursued him for a short distance
as he retreated incontinently through the trees;
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