| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: the time being, and I've been wearying to see ye, Mr. Balfour."
"How's it with Alan?" I asked.
"Brawly," said he. "Andie picks him up at Gillane sands to-morrow,
Wednesday. He was keen to say good-bye to ye, but the way that things
were going, I was feared the pair of ye was maybe best apart. And that
brings me to the essential: how does your business speed?"
"Why," said I, "I was told only this morning that my testimony was
accepted, and I was to travel to Inverary with the Advocate, no less."
"Hout awa!" cried Stewart. "I'll never believe that."
"I have maybe a suspicion of my own," says I, "but I would like fine to
hear your reasons."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: inanimate lump of clay.
A moment later Mugambi was searching the interior of
the hut. At first slowly, calling, "Lady!" in a low
whisper, and finally with almost frantic haste, until
the truth presently dawned upon him--the hut was empty!
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Tarzan Becomes a Beast Again
For a moment Werper had stood above the sleeping ape-man,
his murderous knife poised for the fatal thrust;
but fear stayed his hand. What if the first blow
should fail to drive the point to his victim's heart?
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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: move Myles's patient virtue; he went his own gait in the habits
of his life, and in so going knew as little as the others of the
mad court that the Prince's growing liking for him was, perhaps,
more than all else, on account of that very temperance.
Then, by-and-by, the Prince began to confide in him as he did in
none of the others. There was no great love betwixt the King and
his son; it has happened very often that the Kings of England
have felt bitter jealousy towards the heirs-apparent as they have
grown in power, and such was the case with the great King Henry
IV. The Prince often spoke to Myles of the clashing and jarring
between himself and his father, and the thought began to come to
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