| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: which had opened in its descent and spilled her money and papers
over the floor of the limousine.
"Oh, thank you," exclaimed Mrs. Brewster, as he handed her the bag,
box, and bank notes. "Don't bother to look for that quarter; Harris
will find it at the garage."
Kent ignored her remark as he again searched the floor of the car;
he was glad of the pretext to avoid looking at the widow. He wanted
time to collect his thoughts for, in Picking up her belongings, her
handkerchief had caught his attention - he had seen its mate in the
possession of Detective Ferguson, and clinging to it the broken
portions of the capsules of amyl nitrite which Jimmie Turnbull had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson: - its image fondly dwelt on by many travellers.
Here lived an ancestor of mine, who was a herd of men. I read him,
judging with older criticism the report of childish observation, as
a man of singular simplicity of nature; unemotional, and hating the
display of what he felt; standing contented on the old ways; a
lover of his life and innocent habits to the end. We children
admired him: partly for his beautiful face and silver hair, for
none more than children are concerned for beauty and, above all,
for beauty in the old; partly for the solemn light in which we
beheld him once a week, the observed of all observers, in the
pulpit. But his strictness and distance, the effect, I now fancy,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: not think there were a great many pretty women in the room,
and WHICH he thought the prettiest? and his answering
immediately to the last question: Oh! the eldest Miss Bennet,
beyond a doubt; there cannot be two opinions on that point.' "
"Upon my word! Well, that is very decided indeed-- that does
seem as if-- but, however, it may all come to nothing, you
know."
"MY overhearings were more to the purpose than YOURS,
Eliza," said Charlotte. "Mr. Darcy is not so well worth
listening to as his friend, is he?-- poor Eliza!-- to be only just
TOLERABLE."
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