| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: The destiny of the pair was then and there decided. Ginevra foresaw a
cruel struggle, but the idea of abandoning Luigi--an idea which may
have floated in her soul--vanished completely. His forever, she
dragged him suddenly, with a desperate sort of energy, from her
father's house, and did not leave him till she saw him reach the house
where Servin had engaged a modest lodging.
By the time she reached home, Ginevra had attained to that serenity
which is caused by a firm resolution; no sign in her manner betrayed
uneasiness. She turned on her father and mother, whom she found in the
act of sitting down to dinner, a glance of exceeding gentleness devoid
of hardihood. She saw that her mother had been weeping; the redness of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Sheik, rifle in hand, rushed from his tent directly into the
path of the maddened brute. He raised his weapon and fired
once, the bullet missed its mark, and Tantor was upon him,
crushing him beneath those gigantic feet as he raced over him
as you and I might crush out the life of an ant that chanced to
be in our pathway.
And then, bearing his burden carefully, Tantor, the elephant,
entered the blackness of the jungle.
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Meriem, dazed by the unexpected sight of Korak whom she had
long given up as dead, permitted herself to be led away
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: Capt. Sulivan that he had watched a stallion for a whol
hour, violently kicking and biting a mare till he force
her to leave her foal to its fate. Capt. Sulivan can so fa
corroborate this curious account, that he has several time
found young foals dead, whereas he has never found a dea
calf. Moreover, the dead bodies of full-grown horses ar
more frequently found, as if more subject to disease o
accidents, than those of the cattle. From the softness o
the ground their hoofs often grow irregularly to a grea
length, and this causes lameness. The predominant colour
are roan and iron-grey. All the horses bred here, both tam
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