| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: his hands. "God forgive me," he said at last. "I cannot hate
her."
The ape-man cast a contemptuous look at his companion
and arose. "Tarzan goes again to hunt," he said. "You have
enough food for two days. By that time he will return."
The two watched him until he had disappeared in the foliage
of the trees at the further side of the clearing.
When he had gone the girl felt a vague sense of apprehen-
sion that she never experienced when Tarzan was present. The
invisible menaces lurking in the grim jungle seemed more real
and much more imminent now that the ape-man was no longer
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: young lord; "but I hope you find nothing that makes you envy your
old tobacco-cask."
"I am not particular respecting my lodgings," replied the
General; "yet were I to make any choice, I would prefer this
chamber by many degrees to the gayer and more modern rooms of
your family mansion. Believe me that, when I unite its modern
air of comfort with its venerable antiquity, and recollect that
it is your lordship's property, I shall feel in better quarters
here than if I were in the best hotel London could afford."
"I trust--I have no doubt--that you will find yourself as
comfortable as I wish you, my dear General," said the young
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: the sweet; and whoever went down first, the whole of his shed-mates
were to follow next in order. This caused a good deal of joy in
Shed B, and would have caused more if it had not still remained to
choose our pioneer. In view of the ambiguity in which we lay as to
the length of the rope and the height of the precipice - and that
this gentleman was to climb down from fifty to seventy fathoms on a
pitchy night, on a rope entirely free, and with not so much as an
infant child to steady it at the bottom, a little backwardness was
perhaps excusable. But it was, in our case, more than a little.
The truth is, we were all womanish fellows about a height; and I
have myself been put, more than once, HORS DE COMBAT by a less
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