| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: a great reward for whoever takes her back to her people. It was
the only reward I wanted. But she escaped and crossed the river
in one of my canoes. I followed her, but The Sheik was there,
God knows how, and he captured her and attacked me and drove
me back. Then came Baynes, angry because he had lost the girl,
and shot me. If you want her, go to The Sheik and ask him for
her--she has passed as his daughter since childhood."
"She is not The Sheik's daughter?" asked Korak.
"She is not," replied Malbihn.
"Who is she then?" asked Korak.
Here Malbihn saw his chance. Possibly he could make use of his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: I
"We got to make a fight for it," said my uncle. "We got to face
the music!"
I remember that even at the sight of him I had a sense of
impending calamity. He sat under the electric light with the
shadow of his hair making bars down his face. He looked
shrunken, and as though his skin had suddenly got loose and
yellow. The decorations of the room seemed to have lost
freshness, and outside the blinds were up--there was not so much
fog as a dun darkness. One saw the dingy outlines of the
chimneys opposite quite distinctly, and then a sky of such brown
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare: A flower that dies when first it gins to bud;
A brittle glass that's broken presently:
A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour.
And as goods lost are seld or never found,
As vaded gloss no rubbing will refresh,
As flowers dead lie wither'd on the ground,
As broken glass no cement can redress,
So beauty blemish'd once's for ever lost,
In spite of physic, painting, pain and cost.
XIV.
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