| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: from any logical or melancholy thought. I had gone to the
doctor's house two nights before prepared to die, prepared
for worse than death; what had passed, terrible although it
was, looked almost bright compared to my anticipations; and
it was not till I had slept a full night in the flying palace
car, that I awoke to the sense of my irreparable loss and to
some reasonable alarm about the future. In this mood, I
examined the contents of the bag. It was well supplied with
gold; it contained tickets and complete directions for my
journey as far as Liverpool, and a long letter from the
doctor, supplying me with a fictitious name and story,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: It is but a little way to go, and yet there was something to be
seen in the path. For as we walked I looked up, and before me,
standing with folded arms and apart from all men, was de Garcia. I
had scarcely thought of him for some days, so full had my mind been
of other matters, but at the sight of his evil face I remembered
that while this man lived, sorrow and danger must be my bedfellows.
He watched us pass, taking note of all, then he called to me who
walked last:
'Farewell, Cousin Wingfield. You have lived through this bout also
and won a free pardon, you, your woman and your brat together. If
the old war-horse who is set over us as a captain had listened to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac: however, in spite of the minister's assurance, Monsieur de Listomere
made inquiries in the different offices. By an indiscretion (often
practised by heads of departments in favor of their friends) one of
the secretaries showed him a document confirming the fatal news, which
was only waiting the signature of the director, who was ill, to be
submitted to the minister.
The Baron de Listomere went immediately to an uncle of his, a deputy,
who could see the minister of the Navy at the chamber without loss of
time, and begged him to find out the real intentions of his Excellency
in a matter which threatened the loss of his whole future. He waited
in his uncle's carriage with the utmost anxiety for the end of the
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