| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: it would always be ready for his offices. There would be
difficulties, but from the first they presented themselves only as
difficulties surmounted. Even for a person so little affiliated
the thing would be a matter of arrangement. He saw it all in
advance, and how bright in especial the place would become to him
in the intermissions of toil and the dusk of afternoons; how rich
in assurance at all times, but especially in the indifferent world.
Before withdrawing he drew nearer again to the spot where he had
first sat down, and in the movement he met the lady whom he had
seen praying and who was now on her way to the door. She passed
him quickly, and he had only a glimpse of her pale face and her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the white she who lay a prisoner within the village. All others
were their legitimate prey. Then, raising his face toward the sky,
he gave voice to a single cry. It was the signal.
In response three thousand hairy bulls leaped screaming and
barking into the village of the terrified blacks. Warriors poured
from every hut. Mothers gathered their babies in their arms and
fled toward the gates as they saw the horrid horde pouring into
the village street. Kovudoo marshaled his fighting men about
him and, leaping and yelling to arouse their courage, offered a
bristling, spear tipped front to the charging horde.
Korak, as he had led the march, led the charge. The blacks
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: door, he had a few minutes to spare. He excused himself from Le
Chapelier, and went briskly out to the anteroom.
She advanced to meet him, her manner eager, almost feverish.
"I will not affect ignorance of why you have come," he said quickly,
to make short work. "But time presses, and I warn you that only
the most solid of reasons can be worth stating."
It surprised her. It amounted to a rebuff at the very outset,
before she had uttered a word; and that was the last thing she had
expected from Andre-Louis. Moreover, there was about him an air
of aloofness that was unusual where she was concerned, and his
voice had been singularly cold and formal.
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