| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela: ranged when you return," Luis Cervantes whispered to him.
"What do you mean?" Demetrio asked. "I thought
that you and Camilla . . ."
"There's not a word of truth in it, Chief. She likes you
but she's afraid of you, that's all."
"Really? Is that really true?"
"Yes. But I think you're quite right in not wanting
to leave any bitter feelings behind you as you go. When
you come back as a conqueror, everything will be dif-
ferent. They'll all thank you for it even."
"By God, you're certainly a shrewd one," Demetrio re-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: the true Monument of Robert Stevenson with a little of the
moss removed from the inscription, and the Portrait of the
artist with some superfluous canvas cut away.
I - OPERATIONS OF 1807
[Sunday, 16th Aug.]
Everything being arranged for sailing to the rock on
Saturday the 15th, the vessel might have proceeded on the
Sunday; but understanding that this would not be so agreeable
to the artificers it was deferred until Monday. Here we
cannot help observing that the men allotted for the operations
at the rock seemed to enter upon the undertaking with a degree
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott: she went, the soft light fell upon the roots of flowers, and they
with new life spread forth in the warm ground, and forced fresh sap
to the blossoms above. Brightly they bloomed and danced in the
soft light, and the Frost-Spirits tried in vain to harm them, for when
they came beneath the bright clouds their power to do evil left them.
From his dark castle the King looked out on the happy flowers,
who nodded gayly to him, and in sweet colors strove to tell him
of the good little Spirit, who toiled so faithfully below,
that they might live. And when he turned from the brightness without,
to his stately palace, it seemcd so cold and dreary, that he folded
Violet's mantle round him, and sat beneath the faded wreath upon his
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