| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: a favourite highway for armies, by the year 1780 it had become an
almost impassable jungle. A small company of Sepoys, which in
that year by heroic exertions forced its way through, was obliged
to traverse 120 miles of trackless forest, swarming with tigers
and black shaggy bears. In 1789 this jungle "continued so dense
as to shut off all communication between the two most important
towns, and to cause the mails to be carried by a circuit of fifty
miles through another district."
Such a state of things it is difficult for us to realize; but the
monotonous tale of disaster and suffering is not yet complete.
Beerbhoom was, to all intents and purposes, given over to tigers.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: had brought with him. He drew these now rather reluctantly from
his pocket, and after a long pause over the envelopes began to
read them.
He reread Likeman's letter first.
Likeman could not forgive him.
"My dear Scrope," he wrote, "your explanation explains nothing.
This sensational declaration of infidelity to our mother church,
made under the most damning and distressing circumstances in the
presence of young and tender minds entrusted to your
ministrations, and in defiance of the honourable engagements
implied in the confirmation service, confirms my worst
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Message by Honore de Balzac: sigh.
"Alas, madame, I have just made a very arduous journey----,
undertaken solely on your account."
"Sir!"
"Oh! it is on behalf of one who calls you Juliette that I am
come," I continued. Her face grew white.
"You will not see him to-day."
"Is he ill?" she asked, and her voice sank lower.
"Yes. But for pity's sake, control yourself. . . . He intrusted
me with secrets that concern you, and you may be sure that never
messenger could be more discreet nor more devoted than I."
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