| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: countenance portrayed bored indifference though both men
knew that they were about to be tortured.
"Good-bye, old top," whispered the young lieutenant.
Tarzan turned his eyes in the direction of the other and
smiled. "Good-bye," he said. "If you want to get it over in a
hurry, inhale the smoke and flames as rapidly as you can."
"Thanks," replied the aviator and though he made a wry
face, he drew himself up very straight and squared his shoul-
ders.
The women and children had seated themselves in a wide
circle about the victims while the warriors, hideously painted,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: she said. "Don't you see that Monsieur Nathan is dying?"
The man got an iron bar from the press-room, with which he burst in
the door. Raoul had actually smothered himself, like any poor work-
girl, with a pan of charcoal. He had written a letter to Blondet,
which lay on the table, in which he asked him to ascribe his death to
apoplexy. The countess, however, had arrived in time; she had Raoul
carried to her coach, and then, not knowing where else to care for
him, she took him to a hotel, engaged a room, and sent for a doctor.
In a few hours Raoul was out of danger; but the countess did not leave
him until she had obtained a general confession of the causes of his
act. When he had poured into her heart the dreadful elegy of his woes,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: he was not walking fast that he might spare his horse, and,
to look at him, it would not have been believed that he was
following a road which might at any instant be swarming
with Tartars.
Nadia, holding Michael by the hand, made way for the
vehicle. The kibitka stopped, and the driver smilingly
looked at the young girl.
"And where are you going to in this fashion?" he asked,
opening wide his great honest eyes.
At the sound of his voice, Michael said to himself that
he had heard it before. And it was satisfactory to him to
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