| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: describe the dignity and loveliness of her person as it seemed in
that hour. But they went to the hearts of the rude chieftains who
listened. Many of them despised the Aztecs as a womanish people of
the plains and the lakes, a people of commerce. Many had blood
feuds against them dating back for generations. But still they
knew that their princess spoke truth, and that the triumph of the
Teule in Tenoctitlan would mean his triumph over every city
throughout the land. So then and there they chose, though in after
days, in the stress of defeat and trouble, many went back upon
their choice as is the fashion of men.
'Otomie,' cried their spokesman, after they had taken counsel
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: countess of the Faubourg Saint-Germain, to our friend's garret. La
Palferine, seeing her, said, 'You have made a peeress of yourself I
know. But it is too late, Claudine; every one is talking just now
about the Southern Cross, I should like it see it!'
" 'I will get it for you.'
"La Palferine burst into a peal of Homeric laughter.
" 'Most distinctly,' he returned, 'I do /not/ wish to have a woman as
ignorant as a carp for my mistress, a woman that springs like a flying
fish from the green-room of the Opera to Court, for I should like to
see you at the Court of the Citizen King.'
"She turned to me.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: From whence we had our being and our birth.
PERICLES.
Tyre, I now look from thee then, and to Tarsus
Intend my travel, where I'll hear from thee;
And by whose letters I'll dispose myself.
The care I had and have of subjects' good
On thee I lay, whose wisdom's strength can bear it.
I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath:
Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both:
But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe,
That time of both this truth shall ne'er convince,
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