| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: A score of howling blacks pushed and buffeted the prisoner
down the village street and bound him to the post in the
centre of the circle of little fires and boiling cooking-pots.
When at last he was made fast and seemed quite helpless
and beyond the faintest hope of succour, Rokoff's shrivelled
wart of courage swelled to its usual proportions when danger
was not present.
He stepped close to the ape-man, and, seizing a spear from
the hands of one of the savages, was the first to prod the
helpless victim. A little stream of blood trickled down the
giant's smooth skin from the wound in his side; but no murmur
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: and a bit of a brat - a little thing, so high.'
'Don't move,' said Mr. Archer.
'No, sir, I will not, and thank you kindly,' said Oglethorpe.
'At York they are. A very good lass is my wife - far too
good for me. And the little rascal - well, I don't know how
to say it, but he sort of comes round you. If I were to go,
sir, it would be hard on my poor girl - main hard on her!'
'Ay, you must feel bitter hardly to the rogue that laid you
here,' said Archer.
'Why, no, sir, more against Engleton and the passengers,'
replied the guard. 'He played his hand, if you come to look
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: supposed maniac, who, as if raised to frenzy by the interview,
roamed wildly around the great stone, exhausting his voice in
shrieks and imprecations, that thrilled wildly along the waste
heath.
The two sportsmen moved on some time in silence, until they were
out of hearing of these uncouth sounds, which was not ere they
had gained a considerable distance from the pillar that gave name
to the moor. Each made his private comments on the scene they
had witnessed, until Hobbie Elliot suddenly exclaimed, "Weel,
I'll uphaud that yon ghaist, if it be a ghaist, has baith done
and suffered muckle evil in the flesh, that gars him rampauge in
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