| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: its deck and stepped ashore. Was one of them this Master of the
World, who had not been seen since he was reported from Lake
Superior? Was this the mysterious "Terror" which had thus risen from
the depths of Lake Erie?
"I was alone," said Wells. "Alone on the edge of the Creek. If you
and your assistants, Mr. Strock had been there, we four against two,
we would have been able to reach these men and seize them before they
could have regained their boat and fled."
"Probably," I answered. "But were there no others on the boat with
them? Still, if we had seized the two, we could at least have learned
who they were."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: down and wound a thong tightly round the sharp nose. Then he tied the front
legs.
"Thar! Now you loosen the ropes an' wind them up."
When I had done this he lifted the cub and swung him over his broad back.
"Come on, you trail behind, an' keep your eye peeled to see he doesn't work
thet knot off his jaws. . . . Say, youngster, now you've got him, what in
thunder will you do with him?"
I looked at my torn trousers, at the blood on my skinned and burning hands,
and I felt of the bruise on my head, as I said, grimly: "I'll hang to him
as long as I can."
XIII. THE CABIN IN THE FOREST
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: "I took pity upon her, and--ordered a little hat that I have just
invented, a quite new shape. If Mlle. Amanda succeeds with it, she
will say no more about the money, her fortune is made."
"In my opinion," put in Desroches, "the finest things that I have seen
in a duel of this kind give those who know Paris a far better picture
of the city than all the fancy portraits that they paint. Some of you
think that you know a thing or two," he continued, glancing round at
Nathan, Bixiou, La Palferine, and Lousteau, "but the king of the
ground is a certain Count, now busy ranging himself. In his time, he
was supposed to be the cleverest, adroitest, canniest, boldest,
stoutest, most subtle and experienced of all the pirates, who,
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