| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: blind as Justice is proverbially supposed to be. Joseph Muller has
become the idol of all who are engaged in this weary business of
hunting down wrong and punishing crime. He is without a peer in his
profession. But he has also become the idol of some of the criminals.
For if he discovers (as sometimes happens) that the criminal is a
good sort after all, he is just as likely to warn his prey, once he
has all proofs of the guilt and a conviction is certain. Possibly
this is his way of taking the sting from his irresistible impulse to
ferret out hidden mysteries. But it is rather inconvenient, and he
has hurt himself by it - hurt himself badly. They were tired of his
peculiarities at the capital, and wanted to make his years an excuse
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare: And wherefore say not I that I am old?
O, love's best habit is a soothing tongue,
And age, in love, loves not to have years told.
Therefore, I'll lie with love, and love with me,
Since that our faults in love thus smother'd be.
II.
Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,
That like two spirits do suggest me still;
My better angel is a man right fair,
My worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.
To win me soon to hell, my female evil
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: which at present oozes from us."
We all agreed that the car must come. Then arose the burning
question of where to go. In a rash moment Jill murmured
something about Montenegro.
"Montenegro?" said Berry, with a carelessness that should have
put her on her guard.
"Yes," said Jill. "I heard someone talking about it when I was
dining with the Bedells. It sounded priceless. I had a sort of
idea it was quite small, and had a prince, but it's really quite
big, and it's got a king over it, and they all wear the old
picturesque dress, and the scenery's gorgeous. And, if it was
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