| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: forever."
"But how are we to get there?" asked the girl, looking
fearfully at the turbulent river.
"It ain't deep," Byrne assured her. "Come ahead; I'll carry
yeh acrost," and without waiting for a reply he gathered her
in his arms and started down the bank.
What with the thoughts that had occupied his mind off and
on during the afternoon the sudden and close contact of the
girl's warm young body close to his took Billy Byrne's breath
away, and sent the hot blood coursing through his veins. It
was with the utmost difficulty that he restrained a mad desire
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: it," and he toasted me again. They talked about the French and
what a shame it was that Sir Arthur only commanded a brigade at
Hastings, and he told Dad of a battle in India at a place called
Assaye. Dad said it was a terrible fight, but Sir Arthur described it
as though it had been a whist-party - I suppose because a lady was
present.'
'Of course you were the lady. I wish I'd seen you,'said Una.
'I wish you had, child. I had such a triumph after dinner. Rene
and Doctor Break came in. They had quite made up their quarrel,
and they told me they had the highest esteem for each other, and I
laughed and said, "I heard every word of it up in the tree." You
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Purse by Honore de Balzac: make, took leave of the Baroness, her daughter, and the two
strangers, and went away, wholly possessed by the first raptures
of true love, without attempting to analyze the little incidents
of the evening.
On the morrow the young painter felt the most ardent desire to
see Adelaide once more. If he had followed the call of his
passion, he would have gone to his neighbor's door at six in the
morning, when he went to his studio. However, he still was
reasonable enough to wait till the afternoon. But as soon as he
thought he could present himself to Madame de Rouville, he went
downstairs, rang, blushing like a girl, shyly asked Mademoiselle
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