| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: her fancy to so far outrun truth and probability,
that on merely hearing the name of the Miss Dashwoods,
and understanding them to be Mr. Dashwood's sisters,
she immediately concluded them to be staying in Harley Street;
and this misconstruction produced within a day
or two afterwards, cards of invitation for them
as well as for their brother and sister, to a small
musical party at her house. The consequence of which was,
that Mrs. John Dashwood was obliged to submit not only
to the exceedingly great inconvenience of sending her
carriage for the Miss Dashwoods, but, what was still worse,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: credentials and went to Mr. Turnbull; he believed my story that I
was the colonel's new secretary and got the securities."
Sylvester paused. "If I'd rested content with that success I'd
been all right," he added. "But I was in too great a hurry and
forged Mr. Clymer's signature to a check for five thousand dollars
and presented it at the Metropolis Trust Company. As luck would
have it Mr. Turnbull cashed it for me himself."
"But didn't he suspect you?" exclaimed Clymer. He had gradually
recovered from the shock of Rochester's charges on his arrival,
and was listening with keen attention to Sylvester's confession.
"No. I made the check payable to Colonel McIntyre and forged his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: returned to her a while. The doctor begged her to see a priest.
She said "Yes," and he went himself to fetch an abbe' from Saint
Roch.
Meanwhile Marguerite called me up to her bed, asked me to open a
cupboard, and pointed out a cap and a long chemise covered with
lace, and said in a feeble voice:
"I shall die as soon as I have confessed. Then you will dress me
in these things; it is the whim of a dying woman.?
Then she embraced me with tears and added:
"I can speak, but I am stifled when I speak; I am stifling. Air!"
I burst into tears, opened the window, and a few minutes
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