| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: James More, you leave this house."
James seemed to cast about for a moment in his mind; but it's to be
thought he had enough of Alan's swordsmanship, for he suddenly put off
his hat to us and (with a face like one of the damned) bade us farewell
in a series. With which he was gone.
At the same time a spell was lifted from me.
"Catriona," I cried, "it was me - it was my sword. O, are you much
hurt?"
"I know it, Davie, I am loving you for the pain of it; it was done
defending that bad man, my father. See!" she said, and showed me a
bleeding scratch, "see, you have made a man of me now. I will carry a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: Lord, what apricot blossoms! Yes, they're all Simla.'
'For goodness' sake,' said Dora, 'who painted them? You've got the
catalogue!'
'"I. Armour,"' I read.
'"I. Armour,"' she repeated, and we looked at each other, saying in
plain silence that to the small world of Simla I. Armour was
unknown.
'Not on Government House list, I venture to believe,' said Dora.
That in itself may show to what depths we sink. Yet it was a
trenchant and a reasonable speculation.
'It may be a newcomer,' I suggested, but she shook her head. 'All
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: corner of the enclosure where she had often played at house-
keeping with her beloved Geeka beneath the spreading branches
of the great tree that had overhung the palisade; but now the tree
was gone, and Meriem guessed the reason. It was from this tree
that Korak had descended and struck down The Sheik the day
that he had rescued her from the life of misery and torture that
had been her lot for so long that she could remember no other.
There were low bushes growing within the stockade, however,
and in the shade of these Meriem sat down to think. A little
glow of happiness warmed her heart as she recalled her first
meeting with Korak and then the long years that he had cared
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