| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The sides of the latter were crowded with men gazing shoreward,
and it was evident to Clayton, as to the others who had now
joined him, that the gun which they had heard had been fired
to attract their attention if they still remained at the cabin.
Both vessels lay at a considerable distance from shore, and
it was doubtful if their glasses would locate the waving hats
of the little party far in between the harbor's points.
Esmeralda had removed her red apron and was waving it
frantically above her head; but Clayton, still fearing that even
this might not be seen, hurried off toward the northern point
where lay his signal pyre ready for the match.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: "Plato's Troglodytes regretted not that sunlight which they had
never beheld."
Amyas, not understanding this recondite conceit, made no answer to
it, and there the matter ended for the time. But at last Frank
obtained his audience; and after a couple of hours' absence
returned quite pale and exhausted.
"Thank Heaven, it is over! She was very angry at first--what else
could she be?--and upbraided me with having set my love so low. I
could only answer, that my fatal fault was committed before the
sight of her had taught me what was supremely lovely, and only
worthy of admiration. Then she accused me of disloyalty in having
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: Juana an acknowledged life, an open consolation at all hours. Her
mother had been virtuous as other women are criminal,--in secret; she
had stolen a fancied happiness, she had never really tasted it. But
Juana, unhappy in her virtue as her mother was unhappy in her vice,
could enjoy at all moments the ineffable delights which her mother had
so craved and could not have. To her, as to her mother, maternity
comprised all earthly sentiments. Each, from differing causes, had no
other comfort in their misery. Juana's maternal love may have been the
strongest because, deprived of all other affections, she put the joys
she lacked into the one joy of her children; and there are noble
passions that resemble vice; the more they are satisfied the more they
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