| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: step nearer the girl and whispered: "And would it not be a noble
revenge on your part? You would be indeed returning good for evil."
Eleonora clasped her hands and her lips moved as if in silent
prayer. Then she rose slowly and held out the letters to Muller.
"Do what you will with them," she said. "My strength is at an end."
The next day, in the presence of Commissioner Lange and of the
accused Albert Graumann, Muller opened the letter which he had
received from Miss Roemer and read it aloud. The girl herself,
by her own request, was not present. Both Muller and Graumann
understood that the strain of this message from the dead would
be too much for her to bear. This was the letter:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: as she had done so many times during the late months, and glancing
at his watch, which was hung up by way of timepiece, rose impatiently.
Still he slept, and coming to a resolution she slipped from the room,
closed the door noiselessly, and descended the stairs. The house
was empty. The attraction which moved Arabella to go abroad had
evidently drawn away the other inmates long before.
It was a warm, cloudless, enticing day. She shut the front door,
and hastened round into Chief Street, and when near the theatre could hear
the notes of the organ, a rehearsal for a coming concert being in progress.
She entered under the archway of Oldgate College, where men were putting
up awnings round the quadrangle for a ball in the hall that evening.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: while within reach of his feet was the entrance to a cavern. He found the cave
to be small with an opening at the back into a split in the rock. Evidently
the place had been entered from the rear by bears, who used the hole for
winter sleeping quarters. By crawling on his hands and knees, Wetzel found
the rear opening. Thus he had established a hiding place where it was almost
impossible to locate him. He provisioned his retreat, which he always entered
by the cliff and left by the rear.
An evidence of Wetzel's strange nature, and of his love for this wild home,
manifested itself when he bound Joe to secrecy. It was unlikely, even if the
young man ever did get safely out of the wilderness, that any stories he might
relate would reveal the hunter's favorite rendezvous. But Wetzel seriously
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