| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: to wear an aspect that must have excited the admiration
of the most ignorant or the most indifferent observer.
Its salient points were illumined with novel and radiant tints,
and the solar rays, reflected from its disc, glowed with a
mingled softness and intensity upon Gallia, so that Nerina
had to pale her beauty.
Who could wonder that Rosette, enthusiast as he was, should be
irremovable from his observatory? Who could expect otherwise than that,
with the prospect before him of viewing the giant among planets,
ten times nearer than any mortal eye had ever done, he should have
begrudged every moment that distracted his attention?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the vault he was impressed by her beauty.
"But how about myself?" he asked suddenly. "Are you
going to lead me to liberty?"
"You have been chosen by The Flaming God as his own,"
she answered solemnly. "Not even I have the power to
save you--should they find you again. But I do not intend
that they shall find you. You risked your life to save mine.
I may do no less for you. It will be no easy matter--it may
require days; but in the end I think that I can lead you beyond
the walls. Come, they will look here for me presently, and
if they find us together we shall both be lost--they would
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: "Perez," she asked, "has this room another issue?"
Perez made a negative gesture; confiding in that gesture, the mother
entered the room.
"Juana," she said, "I am your mother, your judge; you have placed
yourself in the only situation in which I could reveal myself to you.
You have come down to me, you, whom I thought in heaven. Ah! you have
fallen low indeed. You have a lover in this room."
"Madame, there is and can be no one but my husband," answered the
girl. "I am the Marquise de Montefiore."
"Then there are two," said Perez, in a grave voice. "He told me he was
married."
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