| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith: MISS NEVILLE. I'll not believe it! this is but a shallow pretence to
deny me. I know they are too valuable to be so slightly kept, and as
you are to answer for the loss--
MRS. HARDCASTLE. Don't be alarmed, Constance. If they be lost, I must
restore an equivalent. But my son knows they are missing, and not to
be found.
TONY. That I can bear witness to. They are missing, and not to be
found; I'll take my oath on't.
MRS. HARDCASTLE. You must learn resignation, my dear; for though we
lose our fortune, yet we should not lose our patience. See me, how
calm I am.
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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 Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: after the lamp had been put out the man had been seen going through
the garden. And it could not have been much later before the shot
was heard. This shot had been fired between the hours of nine and
ten, for it was during this hour only that Knoll was in the garden
house and heard the shot. But it was not necessary to depend upon
the tramp's evidence alone to determine the exact hour of the shot.
It must have been before half past nine, or otherwise the janitor
of No.1, who came home at that hour and lay awake so long, would
undoubtedly have heard a shot fired so near his domicile, in spite
of the noise occasioned by the high wind. There would have been
sufficient time for Mrs. Bernauer to have reached the place of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: And here pronounce free pardon to them all
That will forsake thee and go home in peace.
CLIFFORD.
What say ye, countrymen? will ye relent
And yield to mercy whilst 't is offer'd you,
Or let a rebel lead you to your deaths?
Who loves the king and will embrace his pardon,
Fling up his cap, and say 'God save his Majesty!'
Who hateth him and honours not his father,
Henry the Fifth, that made all France to quake,
Shake he his weapon at us and pass by.
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