| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: lowered his weapon. Balmile was a noble, he a commoner;
Balmile exulted in an honourable cause. Paradou already
perhaps began to be ashamed of his violence. Of a sudden, at
least, the tortured brute turned and fled from the shop in
the footsteps of his former victim, to whose continued flight
his reappearance added wings.
So soon as Balmile appeared between her husband and herself,
Marie-Madeleine transferred to him her eyes. It might be her
last moment, and she fed upon that face; reading there
inimitable courage and illimitable valour to protect. And
when the momentary peril was gone by, and the champion turned
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: or six dollars a night -- ten cents a head, children and
niggers free -- and business a-growin' all the time,
when somehow or another a little report got around
last night that I had a way of puttin' in my time with
a private jug on the sly. A nigger rousted me out
this mornin', and told me the people was getherin' on
the quiet with their dogs and horses, and they'd be
along pretty soon and give me 'bout half an hour's
start, and then run me down if they could; and if they
got me they'd tar and feather me and ride me on a
rail, sure. I didn't wait for no breakfast -- I warn't
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Mexicans, who assured him that they had no love for Pesita
and would fight for Anthony Harding in preference to going
over to the enemy.
"Good!" exclaimed Bridge, "and now for upstairs. "They'll
be howling around here in about five minutes, and we want
to give them a reception they won't forget."
He led the way to the second floor, where the five took up
positions near the front windows. A short distance from the
ranchhouse they could see the enemy, consisting of a detachment
of some twenty of Pesita's troopers riding at a brisk trot
in their direction.
The Mucker |
