| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: buried.
It was an hour before Werper moved again, then he
rolled over facing Tarzan and opened his eyes. The
ape-man slept. By reaching out his hand Werper could
touch the spot where the pouch was buried.
For a long time he lay watching and listening.
He moved about, making more noise than necessary,
yet Tarzan did not awaken. He drew the sacrificial knife
from his belt, and plunged it into the ground.
Tarzan did not move. Cautiously the Belgian pushed the
blade downward through the loose earth above the pouch.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: in requital of kindly treatment. And to-day, owing to the chaos[15]
which reigns in Hellas, if I mistake not, an opportunity has fallen to
this city of winning back our fellow-Hellenes without pain or peril or
expense of any sort. It is given to us to try and harmonise states
which are at war with one another: it is given to us to reconcile the
differences of rival factions within those states themselves, wherever
existing.
[9] Lit. "her hegemony for the city," B.C. 476.
[10] "And first of all."
[11] See Thuc. i. 96.
[12] B.C. 378. Second confederacy of Delos. See Grote, "H. G." x. 152.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: but he abstained from this expression of his sentiments, and they were
in consequence, at the very last, by so much the less comfortable.
It was almost at the very last that he saw her--late the night before she
went to Boston to embark.
"For myself, I wish you might have stayed," he said.
"But not for your own sake."
"I don't make so many differences," said the Baroness.
"I am simply sorry to be going."
"That 's a much deeper difference than mine," Acton declared;
"for you mean you are simply glad!"
Felix parted with her on the deck of the ship. "We shall often
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