| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: nor Fix cared to attend.
At the appointed hour Elder William Hitch rose, and, in an irritated voice,
as if he had already been contradicted, said, "I tell you that Joe Smith
is a martyr, that his brother Hiram is a martyr, and that the persecutions
of the United States Government against the prophets will also make a martyr
of Brigham Young. Who dares to say the contrary?"
No one ventured to gainsay the missionary, whose excited tone contrasted
curiously with his naturally calm visage. No doubt his anger arose
from the hardships to which the Mormons were actually subjected.
The government had just succeeded, with some difficulty, in reducing
these independent fanatics to its rule. It had made itself master of Utah,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: I no longer returned the gaze from my own power; it held me of
itself. I felt my brain grow curiously numb and every muscle in my
body contracted with a pain almost unbearable. Still the thing
came closer and closer, and it seemed to me, half dazed as I was,
that it advanced much faster than before.
Then suddenly I felt a sensation of cold and moisture on my
arms and legs and a pressure against my body, and I realized, as in
a dream, that I had entered the stream of water!
I was crawling toward the thing on my hands and knees, without
having even been conscious that I had moved.
That brought despair and a last supreme struggle to resist
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: to the forest, where it was deemed expedient that he should change his name;
and he was rechristened without a priest, and with wine instead of water,
by the immortal name of Scarlet.
CHAPTER IX
Who set my man i' the stocks?----
I set him there, Sir but his own disorders
Deserved much less advancement.--Lear.
The baron was inflexible in his resolution not to let Matilda leave
the castle. The letter, which announced to her the approaching
fate of young Gamwell, filled her with grief, and increased
the irksomeness of a privation which already preyed sufficiently
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