| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: dying away the secret of the Flying Scud became a private
property.
It was by the first light of dawn that we saw, close on board,
the metropolitan island of Hawaii. We held along the coast, as
near as we could venture, with a fresh breeze and under an
unclouded heaven; beholding, as we went, the arid mountain
sides and scrubby cocoa-palms of that somewhat melancholy
archipelago. About four of the afternoon we turned Waimanolo
Point, the westerly headland of the great bight of Honolulu;
showed ourselves for twenty minutes in full view; and then fell
again to leeward, and put in the rest of daylight, plying under
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Firm of Nucingen by Honore de Balzac: "He changes his shirt three times a day," opined Blondet; "a man of
more than ordinary ability, can he, and ought he, to fall in love?"
"My friends," resumed Bixiou, with a sentimental air, "there is a kind
of man who, when he feels that he is in peril of falling in love, will
snap his fingers or fling away his cigar (as the case may be) with a
'Pooh! there are other women in the world.' Beware of that man for a
dangerous reptile. Still, the Government may employ that citizen
somewhere in the Foreign Office. Blondet, I call your attention to the
fact that this Godefroid had thrown up diplomacy."
"Well, he was absorbed," said Blondet. "Love gives the fool his one
chance of growing great."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: expressionless; within, who knows what consuming blasts of hate,
rage, and despair swept his heart as with a fiery whirlwind.
As Myles looked at the motionless, bleeding figure, his breast
swelled with pity. "My Lord," said he, "thou art sore wounded and
the fight is against thee; wilt thou not yield thee?"
No one but that other heard the speech, and no one but Myles
heard the answer that came back, hollow, cavernous, "Never, thou
dog! Never!"
Then in an instant, as quick as a flash, his enemy spurred
straight upon Myles, and as he spurred he struck a last
desperate, swinging blow, in which he threw in one final effort
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