| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: mock you, and defy you, one and all, and thus I answer you.'
And then, of a sudden, before anybody guessed what she intended
to do, she drove the little silver spear she carried in her hand
into her side with such a strong and steady aim that the keen
point projected through her back, and she fell prone upon the
pavement.
Nyleptha shrieked, and poor Good almost fainted at the sight,
while the rest of us rushed towards her. But Sorais of the Night
lifted herself upon her hand, and for a moment fixed her glorious
eyes intently on Curtis' face, as though there were some message
in the glance, then dropped her head and sighed, and with a sob
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: them into coal."
James Starr and his guide, whilst talking, had continued their walk
at a rapid pace. An hour after leaving Callander they reached
the Dochart pit.
The most indifferent person would have been touched at the appearance
this deserted spot presented. It was like the skeleton of something
that had formerly lived. A few wretched trees bordered a plain
where the ground was hidden under the black dust of the mineral fuel,
but no cinders nor even fragments of coal were to be seen.
All had been carried away and consumed long ago.
They walked into the shed which covered the opening of the Yarrow shaft,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: will be a literary classic."
"Don't you disturb me, Curly, or I'll never get done," implored
the tortured ranger.
"You're doing well. You've only been an hour and a half on six
lines," the tormentor mocked.
Womanlike, she was quite at her ease, since he was very far
indeed from being at his. Yet she had a problem of her own she
was trying to decide.
Had he discovered, after all, that she was not a boy, and had his
reasons--the ones he was trying to tell in that disturbing
letter--anything to do with that discovery? Such a theory
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