| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Presently Monsieur Flaubert nodded to D'Arnot, and
each man placed his principal in position.
"Are you quite ready, gentlemen?" asked Monsieur Flaubert.
"Quite," replied De Coude.
Tarzan nodded. Monsieur Flaubert gave the signal. He
and D'Arnot stepped back a few paces to be out of the line
of fire as the men paced slowly apart. Six! Seven! Eight!
There were tears in D'Arnot's eyes. He loved Tarzan very much.
Nine! Another pace, and the poor lieutenant gave the
signal he so hated to give. To him it sounded the doom
of his best friend.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: "Dispatch a messenger to Whitehall with the letter within an hour."
"You perceive it, do you? And where the plague do you think Nick
Trenchard'l1 be what time that messenger rides?"
Mr. Wilding understood. "Aye, you may stare," sneered Trenchard.
"A letter that has once been stolen may be stolen again. The courier
must go by way of Walford. I had in my mind arranged the spot, close
by the ford, where I should fall upon him, rob him of his dispatches,
and take him - bound hand and foot if necessary - to Vallancey's, who
lives close by; and there I'd leave him until word came that the
Duke had landed."
"That the Duke had landed?" cried Wilding. "You talk as though the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: the fact that he was already full. After four years of flaccidity
it was pleasant to be distended again, but already he felt more
filled than he had ever been before. At present nothing was
showing, but all his body seemed braced and uplifted. He must be
careful not to become inflated in his bearing.
And yet it was difficult not to betray a little inflation. He
was so filled with assurance that things were right with him and
that God was there with him. After all it was not mere fancy; he
was looking through the peepholes of his eyes at the world of
illusion and appearance. The world that was so intent upon its
immediate business, so regardless of eternal things, that had so
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