| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: Derues had bought a large leather trunk. It is possible that to
Derues belongs the distinction of being the first murderer to put
that harmless and necessary article of travel to a criminal use.
He was engaged in his preparations for coffining Mme. de Lamotte,
when a female creditor knocked insistently at the door. She
would take no denial. Clad in his bonnet and gown, Derues was
compelled to admit her. She saw the large trunk, and suspected a
bolt on the part of her creditor. Derues reassured her; a lady,
he said, who had been stopping with them was returning to the
country. The creditor departed. Later in the day Derues came
out of the house and summoned some porters. With their help the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: hour's flow would reduce the pressure. The time was occupied in
eating and in drying off about the huge fire the second cookee had
built close at hand.
"Water cold, boys?" asked Orde.
"Some," was his reply.
"Want to quit?" he inquired, with mock solicitude.
"Nary quit."
Orde's shout of laughter broke the night silence of the whispering
breeze and the rushing water.
"We'll stick to 'em like death to a dead nigger," was his comment.
Newmark, having extracted a kind of cardigan jacket from the bag he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: women are capable of following a plan of this kind for seven years in
order to gratify their fancies later; but to suppose any such
reservations in the Marquise de Listomere would be to calumniate her.
I have had the happiness of knowing this phoenix. She talks well; I
know how to listen; consequently I please her, and I go to her
parties. That, in fact, was the object of my ambition.
Neither plain nor pretty, Madame de Listomere has white teeth, a
dazzling skin, and very red lips; she is tall and well-made; her foot
is small and slender, and she does not put it forth; her eyes, far
from being dulled like those of so many Parisian women, have a gentle
glow which becomes quite magical if, by chance, she is animated. A
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