| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: a baby in her arms. The baby looked at the two men and laughed.
Butler frowned and walked rapidly away. His companion chaffed
him, and asked whether it was the widow or the baby that he was
afraid of. Butler was silent, but after a time asked his
companion to come into some gardens and sit down on one of the
seats, as he had something serious to say to him. For a while
Butler sat silent. Then he asked the other if he had ever been
in Dunedin. "Yes," was the reply. "Look here," said Butler,
"you are the only man I ever made any kind of confidant of. You
are a good scholar, though I could teach you a lot." After this
gracious compliment he went on: "I was once tried in Dunedin on
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Door in the Wall, et. al. by H. G. Wells: himself in the arc of a loose curve of pursuers. He felt suddenly
he must be active and resolute.
"You don't understand," he cried, in a voice that was meant to
be great and resolute, and which broke. "You are blind and I can
see. Leave me alone!"
"Bogota! Put down that spade and come off the grass!"
The last order, grotesque in its urban familiarity, produced
a gust of anger. "I'll hurt you," he said, sobbing with emotion.
"By Heaven, I'll hurt you! Leave me alone!"
He began to run--not knowing clearly where to run. He ran
from the nearest blind man, because it was a horror to hit him. He
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: Babet interrogated him:--
"You say nothing, Brujon?"
Brujon remained silent an instant longer, then he shook his head
in various ways, and finally concluded to speak:--
"See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting,
this evening I jostled a woman who was quarrelling. All that's bad.
Let's quit."
They went away.
As they went, Montparnasse muttered:--
"Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat."
Babet responded
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