| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: guard the camp on all sides!"
"I will send four coloured boys," he said to the Englishman and the
Colonial, "to dig the grave. You'd better bury him at once; there's no use
waiting. We start first thing in the morning."
When they were alone, the Englishman uncovered Peter Halket's breast.
There was one small wound just under the left bosom; and one on the crown
of the head; which must have been made after he had fallen down.
"Strange, isn't it, what he can have been doing here?" said the Colonial;
"a small wound, isn't it?"
"A pistol shot," said the Englishman, closing the bosom.
"A pistol--"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: be."
At the first words the man started with terror, in spite of himself.
Then he recovered composure, and looked quietly at the astonished
priest.
"Father," he said, and the other could not miss the tremor in his
voice, "no one is more guiltless than I of the blood shed----"
"I am bound to believe you," said the priest. He paused a moment, and
again he scrutinized his penitent. But, persisting in the idea that
the man before him was one of the members of the Convention, one of
the voters who betrayed an inviolable and anointed head to save their
own, he began again gravely:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: made--he, humble as he was--an enemy of the cardinal; that
is to say, of a man before whom trembled the greatest men of
the kingdom, beginning with the king.
That man had the power to crush him, and yet he had not done
so. For a mind so perspicuous as that of D'Artagnan, this
indulgence was a light by which he caught a glimpse of a
better future.
Then he had made himself another enemy, less to be feared,
he thought; but nevertheless, he instinctively felt, not to
be despised. This enemy was Milady.
In exchange for all this, he had acquired the protection and
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