| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: Richey."
"I'm getting a headache," he said, putting out his cigarette against
the sole of his shoe. "All I'm certain of just now is that if there
hadn't been a wreck, by this time you'd be sitting in an eight by
ten cell, and feeling like the rhyme for it."
"But listen to this," I contended, as he picked up his hat, "this
fellow Sullivan is a fugitive, and he's a lot more likely to make
advances to Bronson than to us. We could have the case continued,
release Bronson on bail and set a watch on him."
"Not my watch," McKnight protested. "It's a family heirloom."
"You'd better go home," I said firmly. "Go home and go to bed.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: silence. There she wept so remorsefully and besought
his forgiveness so pleadingly that he forgot his just anger,
and soon he gathered his penitent golden-haired Vivien
in his arms and forgave her.
"Darling," she murmured, half sobbingly, as the moon-
light drifted through the open window, glorifying her
sweet, upturned face, "I know I done wrong. I will
never touch ice cream again. I forgot you were not
a millionaire. I used to go there every day. But to-day
I felt some strange, sad presentiment of evil, and I was
not myself. I ate only eleven saucers."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: Street 7.
Muller then hastened to the telegraph office and despatched a
lengthy telegram to the postal authorities in Frankfurt am Main.
When the answer came to him next morning, he packed his grip and
took the first express train leaving G-. He first made a short
visit, however, to Albert Graumann's cell in the prison. Muller
was much too kind-hearted not to relieve the anxiety of this man,
to whom such mental strain might easily prove fatal. He told
Graumann that he was going in search of evidence which might throw
light on the death of Siders, and comforted the prisoner with the
assurance that he, Muller, believed Graumann innocent, and believed
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