| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: married one of the loveliest and wealthiest noble ladies of
Seville.
But I would none of it, who thought of my English Lily by day and
night.
CHAPTER VIII
THE SECOND MEETING
It may be thought that while I was employed thus I had forgotten
the object of my coming to Spain, namely to avenge my mother's
murder on the person of Juan de Garcia. But this was not so. So
soon as I was settled in the house of Andres de Fonseca I set
myself to make inquiries as to de Garcia's whereabouts with all
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: and raised the weapon before Horn could prevent him. "Leave that
pistol where it was," commanded the commissioner. "We have to look
into this matter more closely."
The doctor turned quickly. "You think it was a murder?" he
exclaimed. "The doors were both locked on the inside - where could
the murderer be?"
"I don't pretend to see him myself yet. But our rule is to leave
things as they are discovered, until the official examination.
Muller, did you shut the outer door?"
"Yes, sir; here is the key."
"Johann, are there any more keys for the outer door?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: admitting this religious height, but at the same time unable to
bring himself to acknowledge his free-thinking views before a
person who, by a single word to Pomorsky, might procure him the
coveted appointment.
"That is, you mean that sin keeps him back?" said Lidia Ivanovna.
"But that is a false idea. There is no sin for believers, their
sin has been atoned for. Pardon," she added, looking at the
footman, who came in again with another letter. She read it and
gave a verbal answer: "Tomorrow at the Grand Duchess's, say."
"For the believer sin is not," she went on.
"Yes, but faith without works is dead," said Stepan Arkadyevitch,
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