| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft: the power of fate to separate them."
As her husband she now received him, and he solemnly pledged
himself as her protector--and eternal friend.--
There was one peculiarity in Maria's mind: she was more anxious
not to deceive, than to guard against deception; and had rather
trust without sufficient reason, than be for ever the prey of doubt.
Besides, what are we, when the mind has, from reflection, a certain
kind of elevation, which exalts the contemplation above the little
concerns of prudence! We see what we wish, and make a world of our
own--and, though reality may sometimes open a door to misery, yet
the moments of happiness procured by the imagination, may, without
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: Rebellion; I knew his father's head - my old lord's, that grey fox of
the mountains - to have fallen on the block for that offence, the lands
of the family to have been seized, and their nobility attainted. I
could not conceive what he should be doing in Grant's house; I could
not conceive that he had been called to the bar, had eaten all his
principles, and was now currying favour with the Government even to the
extent of acting Advocate-Depute in the Appin murder.
"Well, Mr. Balfour," said he, "what is all this I hear of ye?"
"It would not become me to prejudge," said I, "but if the Advocate was
your authority he is fully possessed of my opinions."
"I may tell you I am engaged in the Appin case," he went on; "I am to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: a number of people. The lines are closing up, Miss Innes."
The paper was the one he had found among Arnold Armstrong's
effects, and I read it again:
"----by altering the plans for----rooms, may be possible. The
best way, in my opinion, would be to----the plan for----in one of
the----rooms----chimney."
"I think I understand," I said slowly. "Some one is searching
for the secret room, and the invaders--"
"And the holes in the plaster--"
"Have been in the progress of his--"
"Or her--investigations."
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