| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: after day they returned, exhausted and disappointed, to Apia.
Seumanu Tafa, high chief of Apia, was known to be in the forest
with the king; his wife, Fatuila, was seized, imprisoned in the
German hospital, and when it was thought her spirit was
sufficiently reduced, brought up for cross-examination. The wise
lady confined herself in answer to a single word. "Is your husband
near Apia?" "Yes." "Is he far from Apia?" "Yes." "Is he with the
king?" "Yes." "Are he and the king in different places?" "Yes."
Whereupon the witness was discharged. About the 10th of September,
Laupepa was secretly in Apia at the American consulate with two
companions. The German pickets were close set and visited by a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: an explanation cold and formal - "but that when first I came into your
life you seemed to bid me welcome." His fingers closed upon the crimson
bell-cord. She guessed his purpose.
"Wait!" she gasped, and put forth her hand. He paused, the rope in his,
his eye kindling anew. "You ... you mean to kill Richard now?" she
asked him.
A swift lifting of his brows was his only answer. He tugged the cord.
>From the distance the peal of the bell reached them faintly.
"Oh, wait, wait!" she begged, her hands pressed against her cheeks. He
stood impassible - hatefully impassible. ....... if I were to consent
to... this ... how... how soon... ?" He understood the unfinished
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: for this route would enable us to avoid the worst of the mountains.
There we might join some other party of the emigrant Boers--for choice,
that of Retief, of whose arrival over the Drakensberg I was able to tell
them.
That point settled, we made our preparations. To begin with, I had only
enough oxen for two wagons, whereas, even if we abandoned the rest of
them, we must take at least four. Therefore, through my Kaffirs, I
opened negotiations with the surrounding natives, who, when they heard
that I was not a Boer and was prepared to pay for what I bought, soon
expressed a willingness to trade. Indeed, very shortly we had quite a
market established, to which cattle were brought that I bargained for
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