| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: half delirious, when he was spoken to by an officer he had replied, of
all tongues, in English.
The officer shot him instantly in the chest. He fell and lay still and
the officer bent over him. In that moment Henri stabbed him with a
knife in his left hand. Men were coming from every direction, but he
got away - he did not clearly remember how. And at dawn he fell into
the Belgian farmhouse, apparently dying.
Jean's story, on the other hand, was given early and with no hesitation.
He had crossed the border at Holland in civilian clothes, by the simple
expedient of bribing a sentry. He had got, with little difficulty, to
the farmhouse, and found Henri, now recovering but very weak; he was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: cost), and also how she said that she had been dead for five years,
and now that Mr. Oxenham was come, she was alive again, and so
forth.
"Mr. Oxenham bade take the little maid ashore, kissing her and
playing with her, and saying to the lady, 'What is yours is mine,
and what is mine is yours.' And she asking whether the lad should
come ashore, he answered, 'He is neither yours nor mine; let the
spawn of Beelzebub stay on shore.' After which I, coming on deck
again, stumbled over that very lad, upon the hatchway ladder, who
bore so black and despiteful a face, that I verily believe he had
overheard their speech, and so thrust him upon deck; and going
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Enter'd the garden which stretch'd far away to the walls of the borough,
Walk'd across it, rejoicing to see how all things were growing,
Carefully straighten'd the props, on which the apple-tree's branches,
Heavily loaded, reposed, and the weighty boughs of the pear-tree,
Took a few caterpillars from off the strong-sprouting cabbage;
For a bustling woman is never idle one moment.
In this manner she came to the end of the long-reaching garden,
Where was the arbour all cover'd with woodbine: she found not her son there,
Nor was he to be seen in any part of the garden.
But she found on the latch the door which out of the arbour
Through the wall of the town had been made by special permission
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