| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: flotilla.
I warned him, however, not to be too ambitious, and
to forget about dreadnoughts and armored cruisers for a
while and build instead a few small sailing-boats that
could be manned by four or five men.
I was to proceed to Sari, and while prosecuting my
search for Dian attempt at the same time the rehabili-
tation of the federation. Perry was going as far as possible
by water, with the chances that the entire trip might be
made in that manner, which proved to be the fact.
With a couple of Mezops as companions I started for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: followers thou hast come to invade a land in which I am one of
the meanest!"
"Now, by the rood, Saracen," retorted the Western warrior, "thou
shouldst know, ere thou vauntest thyself, that one steel glove
can crush a whole handful of hornets."
"Ay, but it must first enclose them within its grasp," said the
Saracen, with a smile which might have endangered their new
alliance, had he not changed the subject by adding, "And is
bravery so much esteemed amongst the Christian princes that thou,
thus void of means and of men, canst offer, as thou didst of
late, to be my protector and security in the camp of thy
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: stopped, and she no longer had the strength to abandon that loving and
unfortunate youth. To be the sole hope of a noble being, to love him
and then abandon him!--that sacrifice is the treachery of which young
hearts are incapable. Ginevra had the generosity to bury her own grief
and suffering silently in her soul.
The marriage day arrived. Ginevra had no friend with her. While she
was dressing, Luigi fetched the witnesses necessary to sign the
certificate of marriage. These witnesses were worthy persons; one, a
cavalry sergeant, was under obligations to Luigi, contracted on the
battlefield, obligations which are never obliterated from the heart of
an honest man; the other, a master-mason, was the proprietor of the
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