| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Raigne of our
Sovereigne Lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland,
the eighteenth, and of Scotland, the fiftie-fourth,
Anno. Domini, 1620.
Mr. John Carver Mr. Stephen Hopkins
Mr. William Bradford Digery Priest
Mr. Edward Winslow Thomas Williams
Mr. William Brewster Gilbert Winslow
Isaac Allerton Edmund Margesson
Miles Standish Peter Brown
John Alden Richard Bitteridge
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: his own room. His daughter is half demented, and she will go quite mad
when she sees that he is dead; she will fancy that she has killed
him."
Lydie, seeing them carry away her father, looked quite stupefied.
"There lies my only friend!" said Corentin, seeming much moved when
Peyrade was laid out on the bed in his own room. "In all his life he
never had but one impulse of cupidity, and that was for his daughter!
--Let him be an example to you, Contenson. Every line of life has its
code of honor. Peyrade did wrong when he mixed himself up with private
concerns; we have no business to meddle with any but public cases.
"But come what may, I swear," said he with a voice, an emphasis, a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: his rest. His faculties, like those of old fugitives and hunted
creatures, had become trained to a marvelous keenness. A long
low breath of slow wind moaned through the willows, passed
away; some stealthy, soft-footed beast trotted by him in the
darkness; there was a rustling among dry leaves; a fox barked
lonesomely in the distance. But none of these sounds had broken
his slumber.
Suddenly, piercing the stillness, came a bay of a bloodhound.
Quickly Duane sat up, chilled to his marrow. The action made
him aware of his crippled arm. Then came other bays, lower,
more distant. Silence enfolded him again, all the more
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