| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum: girl friends, Berna and Helda, into captivity, shutting them up in his
own gloomy castle.
The Red Rogue thought he had done a very clever thing, and had no fear
of the consequences until one of his men came running up to the castle
to announce that Prince Marvel and his companions were approaching to
rescue the Lady Seseley.
"How many of them are there?" demanded the Red Rogue.
"There are eight, altogether," answered the man, "but two of them
are girls."
"And they expect to force me to give up my captives?" asked the Red
One, laughing with a noise like the roar of a waterfall. "Why, I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: work for just a month, and then fire him out at the end of that
time. I don't like to lose you, but if you have an opportunity to
get in on another paper during this vacation of yours, you're at
liberty to do so, for all of me."
"Then you think my chance of coming back here would be pretty slim
if I leave for a month now?"
"That's right."
There was a silence. Condy hesitated; then he rose.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: never stayed to listen. Down the passage they sped at the double, and
out into the courtyard. Here Ruth's groom, mounted himself, was walking
his mistress's and Diana's horses up and down whilst he waited; yonder
one of Sir Edward's stable-boys was holding Mr. Wilding's roan. Two
or three men of the Somerset militia, in their red and yellow liveries,
lounged by the gates, and turned uninterested eyes upon these newcomers.
Wilding approached his wife's groom. "Get down," he said, "I need your
horse - on the King's business. Get down, I say," he added impatiently,
upon noting the fellow's stare, and, seizing his leg, he helped him to
dismount by almost dragging him from the saddle. "Up with you, Nick,"
said he, and Nick very promptly mounted. "Your mistress will be here
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