| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: I'd as soon die as not. Ye may whip me, starve me, burn me,--it'll
only send me sooner where I want to go."
"I'll make ye give out, though, 'fore I've done!" said
Legree, in a rage.
"I shall have _help_," said Tom; "you'll never do it."
"Who the devil's going to help you?" said Legree, scornfully.
"The Lord Almighty," said Tom.
"D--n you!" said Legree, as with one blow of his fist he
felled Tom to the earth.
A cold soft hand fell on Legree's at this moment. He turned,--it
was Cassy's; but the cold soft touch recalled his dream of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: Chambers. There was a fascination in the idea of seeing if, on a
mention of Captain Everard, he wouldn't do what she thought he
might; wouldn't weigh against the obvious objection the still more
obvious advantage. The advantage of course could only strike him
at the best as rather fantastic; but it was always to the good to
keep hold when you HAD hold, and such an attitude would also after
all involve a high tribute to her fidelity. Of one thing she
absolutely never doubted: Mr. Mudge believed in her with a belief-
-! She believed in herself too, for that matter: if there was a
thing in the world no one could charge her with it was being the
kind of low barmaid person who rinsed tumblers and bandied slang.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: Raoul the story of the bastion, and Raoul fancied he was
listening to one of those deeds of arms belonging to days of
chivalry, so gloriously recounted by Tasso and Ariosto.
"D'Artagnan does not tell you, Raoul," said Athos, in his
turn, "that he was reckoned one of the finest swordsmen of
his time -- a knuckle of iron, a wrist of steel, a sure eye
and a glance of fire; that's what his adversary met with. He
was eighteen, only three years older than you are, Raoul,
when I saw him set to work, pitted against tried men."
"And did Monsieur D'Artagnan come off the conqueror?" asked
the young man, with glistening eye.
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