| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Andes by Rex Stout: certainty. I called to him:
"Harry! Hold fast!"
He glanced at me, gave a short laugh, and nodded.
Then came Desiree's voice, in a low tone of warning:
"On your knees!"
Her meaning was clear; it was to us she spoke. The king had
turned from her and was regarding us steadily with eyes so nearly
closed that their meaning was impenetrable. Harry and I glanced at
each other and remained standing. Then Desiree's voice again:
"Harry! If you love me!"
It was the appeal to a child; but love is young. Immediately
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: 'Good news while it lasts,' I said. 'But will Miss Gilchrist tell
us her private thought upon the war? In her admiration for the
victors, does not there mingle some pity for the vanquished?'
'Indeed, sir,' she said, with animation, 'only too much of it! War
is a subject that I do not think should be talked of to a girl. I
am, I have to be - what do you call it? - a non-combatant? And to
remind me of what others have to do and suffer: no, it is not
fair!'
'Miss Gilchrist has the tender female heart,' said Chevenix.
'Do not be too sure of that!' she cried. 'I would love to be
allowed to fight myself!'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: suddenly put the question:
"Do you happen to know anything of a man named Herbert
-- Charles Herbert?"
Austin turned round sharply and stared at Villiers with
some astonishment.
"Charles Herbert? Weren't you in town three years ago?
No; then you have not heard of the Paul Street case? It caused
a good deal of sensation at the time."
"What was the case?"
"Well, a gentleman, a man of very good position, was
found dead, stark dead, in the area of a certain house in Paul
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