| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: who strenuously bade her attach no credit to these reports, she would
readily have believed them. As it was she waited, wondering, thinking
of him always as she had seen him on that day at Walford when he had
taken his leave of her, and more than once, when she pondered the words
he had said, the look that had invested his drooping eyes, she found
herself with tears in her own. They welled up now, and she rose hastily
to her feet.
She looked a moment at Blake who was watching her keenly, speculating
upon this emotion of which she betrayed some sign, and wondering might
not his heroism have touched her, for, as we have seen, he had arrayed
a deed of excessive meanness, a deed worthy, almost, of the Iscariot,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: Do any thing but this thou doest. Empty
Old receptacles, or common shores, of filth;
Serve by indenture to the common hangman:
Any of these ways are yet better than this;
For what thou professest, a baboon, could he speak,
Would own a name too dear. O, that the gods
Would safely deliver me from this place!
Here, here's gold for thee.
If that thy master would gain by me,
Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance,
With other virtues, which I'll keep from boast;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: clothes, and the caddy in his. And as my friend was a large man
and the caddy a very small boy - "
McKnight's story was interrupted by the indignant slam of the
dining-room door. He was obliged to wait some time, and even his
eternal cheerfulness was ebbing when he finally got the hospital.
"Is Doctor Van Kirk there?" he asked. "Not there? Well, can you
tell me how the patient is whom Doctor Williams, from Washington,
operated on last night? Well, I'm glad of that. Is she conscious?
Do you happen to know her name? Yes, I'll hold the line." There
was a long pause, then McKnight's voice:
"Hello - yes. Thank you very much. Good-by."
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