| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: LADY BRACKNELL. At their age? The idea is grotesque and
irreligious! Algernon, I forbid you to be baptized. I will not
hear of such excesses. Lord Bracknell would be highly displeased
if he learned that that was the way in which you wasted your time
and money.
CHASUBLE. Am I to understand then that there are to he no
christenings at all this afternoon?
JACK. I don't think that, as things are now, it would be of much
practical value to either of us, Dr. Chasuble.
CHASUBLE. I am grieved to hear such sentiments from you, Mr.
Worthing. They savour of the heretical views of the Anabaptists,
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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: I sent in the form of a bullet straight to her lover's heart.
Yes, I have committed a crime, but I feel that I am less criminal
than those two whom I judged and condemned, and whose sentence I
carried out as I now shall carry out my own sentence with a hand
which will not tremble. That I can do this myself, I have you to
thank for, you who can look into the souls of men and recognise
the most hidden motives, you who have not only a wonderful brain
but a heart that can feel. You, I hope, will sometimes think
kindly of your grateful
LEO KNIEPP.
Muller kept this letter as one of his most sacred treasures.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: let him go, and she didn't know what to say till it occurred to
her to make use of the power she knew she had over him. She would
try it again. "I am coming with you," she declared with decision.
"You don't suppose I could remain here in suspense for hours,
perhaps."
He dropped her hand suddenly as if it had burnt him--"Oh, yes, of
course," he mumbled with an air of confusion. One of the men over
there was her husband! And nothing less could be expected from
such a woman. He had really nothing to say but she thought he
hesitated.--"Do you think my presence would spoil everything? I
assure you I am a lucky person, too, in a way. . . . As lucky as
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