| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: who was a stranger to him. That part of their talk which he
overheard told him that the man was a blackmailer, and that he was
making money on the fact that he had caught Theobald Leining cheating
at cards.
This chance had put the officer into Winkler's power. The clerk
knew that he could get nothing from the guilty man himself, so he
had turned to the latter's sister, who was rich, and had threatened
to bring about a disgraceful scandal if she did not pay for his
silence. For more than a year he had been getting money from her
by means of these threats. All this was clear from the conversation.
The man spoke in tones of impertinence, or sneering obsequiousness,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: match.] Do you mind if I smoke? [Coming to himself again, and
flinging away match and cigarette.] I beg your pardon. I don't
want to smoke. I didn't mean that at all. What I mean is . . .
[He bends over LORETTA, catches her hands in his, then sits on arm
of chair, softly puts one arm around her, and is about to kiss
her.]
LORETTA. [With horror, repulsing him.] No! No!
NED. [Surprised.] What's the matter?
LORETTA. [Agitatedly.] Would you make me a wickeder woman than I
am?
NED. A kiss?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: that there should not be one soul saved but myself; for, as for
them, I never saw them afterwards, or any sign of them, except
three of their hats, one cap, and two shoes that were not fellows.
I cast my eye to the stranded vessel, when, the breach and froth of
the sea being so big, I could hardly see it, it lay so far of; and
considered, Lord! how was it possible I could get on shore
After I had solaced my mind with the comfortable part of my
condition, I began to look round me, to see what kind of place I
was in, and what was next to be done; and I soon found my comforts
abate, and that, in a word, I had a dreadful deliverance; for I was
wet, had no clothes to shift me, nor anything either to eat or
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