| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: it the first time that vile scoundrels have placed your
mark upon their dead that they might thus escape sus-
picion, themselves."
"Henry de Montfort," said Norman of Torn, turning
to his visitor, "we of Torn bear no savory name, that
I know full well, but no man may say that we un-
sheath our swords against women. Your sister is not
here. I give you the word of honor of Norman of Torn.
Is it not enough?"
"They say you never lie," replied De Montfort. "Would
to God I knew who had done this thing, or which way
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: "They must have been watching us. We were fools not to have
known it."
"Impossible!" Harry asserted; but I agreed with Desiree; and
though I could see no opening or crevice of any sort in the walls
or ceiling, I was convinced that even then the eyes of the Incas
were upon us.
Our situation was indeed desperate. With our every movement
spied upon, surrounded by four solid walls of stone, and beyond
them ten thousand savage brutes waiting to tear us to pieces--what
wildest fancy could indulge in hope?
Then, glancing up, my eye was arrested by the heap under the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country,
a Voyage to plant the first colony in the Northerne Parts
of Virginia; doe, by these Presents, solemnly and mutually
in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and
combine ourselves together into a civill Body Politick,
for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance
of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof do enact,
constitute, and frame, such just and equall Laws, Ordinances,
Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time,
as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the
Generall Good of the Colonie; unto which we promise
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