| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: of the court without, the fragrance of the peculiar perfume
which now I had come to associate with her. Absolute darkness
was about us, and by this perfume alone I knew that she,
was near to me, until her hand touched mine, and I was led
along an uncarpeted passage and up an uncarpeted stair.
A second door was unlocked, and I found myself in an exquisitely
furnished room, illuminated by the soft light of a shaded lamp
which stood upon a low, inlaid table amidst a perfect ocean
of silken cushions, strewn upon a Persian carpet, whose yellow
richness was lost in the shadows beyond the circle of light.
Karamaneh raised a curtain draped before a doorway, and stood
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: met, "except captains of steamers, of course"--she so qualified
the statement--and had expressed a lively sense of his courage,
and perhaps implied (for I suppose the arts of ladies are the
same as those of men) a modest consciousness of his good
looks, our bear began insensibly to soften; and it was already
part as an apology, though still with unaffected heat of temper,
that he volunteered some sketch of his annoyances.
"A pretty mess we've had!" said he. "Half the stores were
wrong; I'll wring John Smith's neck for him some of these days.
Then two newspaper beasts came down, and tried to raise copy
out of me, till I threatened them with the first thing handy; and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: attention to the boy, who, less flushed now, had dropped into a
sound sleep. 'Look. He'll be all right.'
"She made as if to snatch the child up to her breast, but
restrained herself. Davidson prepared to go. She whispered
hurriedly:
"'Mind, Davy! I've told them that you generally sleep aft in the
hammock under the awning over the cabin. They have been asking me
about your ways and about your ship, too. I told them all I knew.
I had to keep in with them. And Bamtz would have told them if I
hadn't - you understand?'
"He made a friendly sign and went out. The men about the table
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