| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: sense of revenge proportionate to the meanness of
his state.
It is possible that had Concha awaited Rezanov in
St. Petersburg her attraction would have focused
his desires irresistibly; but his mind had resigned
itself to the prospect of separation for a definite
period, and while it had not relegated her image to
the background, her part in his life had been settled
there among many future possibilities, and all the
foreground was crowded with the impatient sym-
bols of the intervening time. Moreover, he well
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: here. By Jove!" he exclaimed on a sudden. "The ambergris--I'd
forgotten all about it." His heart sank. In the hideous confusion
of that morning's work, all thought of the loot had been
forgotten. Had the battle been for nothing, after all? The moment
the beach-combers had been made aware of the meditated attack, it
would have been an easy matter for them to have hidden the
ambergris--destroyed it even.
In two strides Wilbur had reached the beach-combers' dory and was
groping in the forward cuddy. Then he uttered a great shout of
satisfaction. The "stuff" was there, all of it, though the mass
had been cut into quarters, three parts of it stowed in tea-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: permits." He waved a trumpet at him, and the men at the gate
shouted, "Don't touch it, Doctor! Don't lay a hand to the thing."
'"Come, come!" said Rene. "You are not so big fool as you
pretend. No?"
'Doctor Break backed toward the gate, watching Jerry's pistol,
and Rene followed him with his trumpet, like a nurse trying to
amuse a child, and put the ridiculous thing to his ear to show how
it was used, and talked of la Gloire, and l'Humanite, and la Science,
while Doctor Break watched jerry's pistol and swore. I nearly
laughed aloud.
'"Now listen! Now listen!" said Rene. "This will be moneys
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