| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: consumed in that stormy rush through his whole past! And he must
wait another twenty minutes for Ascham. It was one of the worst
symptoms of his case that, in proportion as he had grown to
shrink from human company, he dreaded more and more to be alone. . . .
But why the devil was he waiting for Ascham? Why didn't
he cut the knot himself? Since he was so unutterably sick of the
whole business, why did he have to call in an outsider to rid him
of this nightmare of living?
He opened the drawer again and laid his hand on the revolver. It
was a small slim ivory toy--just the instrument for a tired
sufferer to give himself a "hypodermic" with. Granice raised it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: And the Plague chambers with her: in obscene
And bloody paths her treacherous feet are set;
Better the empty desert and a soul inviolate!
For gentle brotherhood, the harmony
Of living in the healthful air, the swift
Clean beauty of strong limbs when men are free
And women chaste, these are the things which lift
Our souls up more than even Agnolo's
Gaunt blinded Sibyl poring o'er the scroll of human woes,
Or Titian's little maiden on the stair
White as her own sweet lily and as tall,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: a few feet away?"
"I?" Mrs. Brewster turned and regarded him steadfastly. She was
deadly white under her rouge. "Mr. Kent, are you crazy?"
"Yes, crazy to know why you kept your presence in the police court
on Tuesday morning a secret," replied Kent. In their earnestness
neither noticed Kent's absent-minded clutch on a small folded paper
which he had picked up from the floor of the limousine. "Mrs.
Brewster, why did you laugh when Dr. Stone carried Jimmie Turnbull
out of the court room?"
Mrs. Brewster sat still in her corner of the car; so still that
Kent, observing her closely, feared that she had fainted. She had
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