| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: upon chariots, as men do tents or pavilions. And they make their
fire in the midst of their houses.
And they have great multitude of all manner of beasts, save only of
swine, for they bring none forth. And they believe well one God
that made and formed all things. And natheles yet have they idols
of gold and silver, and of tree and of cloth. And to those idols
they offer always their first milk of their beasts, and also of
their meats and of their drinks before they eat. And they offer
often-times horses and beasts. And they clepe the God of kind
YROGA.
And their emperor also, what name that ever he have, they put
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: the beasts.'
And the old gentleman signified acquiescence with his head. There
was no contempt on her part, and no shame on his; the facts were
accepted loyally, and no more about the matter.
I was tightly cross-examined about my journey; and the lady
understood in a moment, and sketched out what I should put into my
book when I got home. 'Whether people harvest or not in such or
such a place; if there were forests; studies of manners; what, for
example, I and the master of the house say to you; the beauties of
Nature, and all that.' And she interrogated me with a look.
'It is just that,' said I.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: even worse. For in the instant that I sat there I seemed to
see the coils closing around John Bailey as the murderer of
Arnold Armstrong.
Gertrude lifted her head at last and stared across the table at
Halsey.
"Why did he do it?" she wailed. "Couldn't you stop him, Halsey?
It was suicidal to go back!"
Halsey was looking steadily through the windows of the breakfast-
room, but it was evident he saw nothing.
"It was the only thing he could do, Trude," he said at last.
"Aunt Ray, when I found Jack at the Greenwood Club last Saturday
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