| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: your head, as though you had but driven a pack of curs
from annoying a stray cat," said the Queen.
"I drew in the service of a woman, Your Majesty,
not in the service of a queen."
"What now! Wouldst even belittle the act which we
all witnessed? The King, my husband, shall reward
thee, Sir Knight, if you but tell me your name."
"If I told my name methinks the King would be
more apt to hang me," laughed the outlaw. "I be Nor-
man of Torn."
The entire party looked with startled astonishment
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: if it were vigorously pursued, it would at last be driven from our
shores. But a change of opinion had come about. People began to ask
if, instead of a fish, this were not some new and remarkable kind of
boat.
Certainly in that case its engine must be one of amazing power.
Perhaps the inventor before selling the secret of his invention,
sought to attract public attention and to astound the maritime world.
Such surety in the movements of his boat, grace in its every
evolution, such ease in defying pursuit by its arrow-like speed,
surely, these were enough to arouse world-wide curiosity!
At that time great progress had been made in the manufacture of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: descended rapidly; although I had not seen Villefort's face,
I recognized him by the beating of my heart. I crossed the
street, and stopped at a post placed at the angle of the
wall, and by means of which I had once before looked into
the garden. This time I did not content myself with looking,
but I took my knife out of my pocket, felt that the point
was sharp, and sprang over the wall. My first care was to
run to the door; he had left the key in it, taking the
simple precaution of turning it twice in the lock. Nothing,
then, preventing my escape by this means, I examined the
grounds. The garden was long and narrow; a stretch of smooth
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