| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: under him with the recoil, and hardly knowing what he did, he
drove his spurs deep into its sides with a shout. At the same
moment there resounded in his ears a crashing rattle and clatter,
he knew not of what, and then, as his horse recovered and sprang
forward, and as the stunning bewilderment passed, he found that
his helmet had been struck off. He heard a great shout arise from
all, and thought, with a sickening, bitter disappointment, that
it was because he had lost. At the farther end of the course he
turned his horse, and then his heart gave a leap and a bound as
though it would burst, the blood leaped to his cheeks tingling,
and his bosom thrilled with an almost agonizing pang of triumph,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Guy De Maupassant: last will and testament, and drive the reprobate out of his
house."
"Consider well what you are saying; must this really be?"
"It must, or otherwise I shall have to languish in purgatory much
longer," the sepulchral voice replied with a deep sigh; but the
next moment the ghost yelled out in terror: "Oh! Good Lord!" and
began to run away as fast as it could. A shrill whistle was
heard, and then another, and the police director laid his hand on
the shoulder of the exorciser with the remark:
"You are in custody."
Meanwhile, the police sergeant and the policeman, who had come
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: bor, old Mrs. Hiller, who was crippled with
rheumatism and had only her son, the lame
shoemaker, to take care of her; and she went to
the French Church, whatever the weather. She
was a sincerely devout girl. She prayed for her-
self and for Frank, and for Emil, among the
temptations of that gay, corrupt old city. She
found more comfort in the Church that winter
than ever before. It seemed to come closer to
her, and to fill an emptiness that ached in her
heart. She tried to be patient with her hus-
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