| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: just such a savage, primeval-looking fellow as I had
discovered in the woods the day that Snider had disappeared
with the launch.
The colonel evidently expected to use the fellow as
interpreter, but when the savage addressed me it was in a
language as foreign to me as was that of the blacks. At
last the old officer gave it up, and, shaking his head, gave
instructions for my removal.
From his office I was led to a guardhouse, in which I found
about fifty half-naked whites, clad in the skins of wild
beasts. I tried to converse with them, but not one of them
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: marriage too, and the certificate she had treasured in her kilt;
and I turned aside and made believe to rummage among my cases. The
first thing I lighted on was a case of gin, the only one that I had
brought; and, partly for the girl's sake, and partly for horror of
the recollections of old Randall, took a sudden resolve. I prized
the lid off. One by one I drew the bottles with a pocket
corkscrew, and sent Uma out to pour the stuff from the verandah.
She came back after the last, and looked at me puzzled like.
"No good," said I, for I was now a little better master of my
tongue. "Man he drink, he no good."
She agreed with this, but kept considering. "Why you bring him?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: aught that I can comprehend as though I were a little child; only
this I know, that they must be very great. Thou knowest well that
in any case I would fight me this battle for my father's sake and
for the honor of my house; nevertheless, in return for all that
it will so greatly advantage thee, wilt thou not grant me a boon
in return should I overcome mine enemy?"
"What is thy boon, Sir Myles?"
"That thou wilt grant me thy favor to seek the Lady Alice de
Mowbray for my wife."
The Earl of Mackworth started up from his seat. "Sir Myles
Falworth"--he began, violently, and then stopped short, drawing
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