| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: For a few seconds the judges consulted together. "Twenty-nine
seconds," announced their spokesman, and at the words a great
cheer went up. Bannister had made his tie in record time.
Impudently the scoundrel sauntered up to the grand stand, bowed
elaborately to Miss Messiter, and perched himself on the fence,
where he might be the observed of all observers. It was curious,
she thought, how his vanity walked hand in hand with so much
power and force. He was really extraordinarily strong, but no
debutante's self-sufficiency could have excelled his. He was so
frankly an egotist that it ceased to be a weakness.
Back in her room at the hotel an hour later Helen paced up and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: heaped fifty or sixty feet from the sleeping members of Simms'
faction. The three left behind walked in silence to Barbara
Harding's shelter. Here Divine scratched at the piece of sail
cloth which served as a door until he had succeeded in
awakening the sleeper within. And from above Oda Yorimoto
watched the activity in the little cove with intent and unwavering eyes.
The girl, roused from a fitful slumber, came to the doorway
of her primitive abode, alarmed by this nocturnal summons.
"It is I, Larry," whispered the man. "Are you dressed?"
"Yes," replied the girl, stepping out into the moonlight.
"What do you want? What has happened?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: the open face of the rock, extending a space of about six or
eight yards, until he reached a second door, where the path
re-entered the rock, and which was also defended by an iron
portcullis. "An admirable traverse," observed the Captain; "and
if commanded by a field-piece, or even a few muskets, quite
sufficient to ensure the place against a storming party."
Sir Duncan Campbell made no answer at the time; but, the moment
afterwards, when they had entered the second cavern, he struck
with the stick which he had in his hand, first on the one side,
and then on the other of the wicket, and the sullen ringing sound
which replied to the blows, made Captain Dalgetty sensible that
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