| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: Jimmy breathed a sigh of relief.
"I have a wife," said Alfred, "who spends her time and my money
gadding around with God knows whom. But I'll catch him!" he
cried with new fury. "Here," he said, pulling a roll of bills
from his pocket. "I'll bet you I'll catch him. How much do you
want to bet?"
Undesirous of offering any added inducements toward his own
capture, Jimmy backed away both literally and figuratively from
Alfred's proposition.
"What's the use of getting so excited?" he asked.
Mistaking Jimmy's unwillingness to bet for a disinclination to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: the thought she was about to express, "would it be a sin to remain a
virgin after marriage?"
"That is a case of conscience whose solution is not within my
knowledge. If you wish to know what the celebrated Sanchez says of it
in his treatise 'De Matrimonio,' I shall be able to tell you
to-morrow."
The cure went away; Mademoiselle Grandet went up to her father's
secret room and spent the day there alone, without coming down to
dinner, in spite of Nanon's entreaties. She appeared in the evening at
the hour when the usual company began to arrive. Never was the old
hall so full as on this occasion. The news of Charles's return and his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: of a sudden, though seemingly natural death, without wondering.
I tell you, Fu-Manchu is omnipresent; his tentacles embrace everything.
I said that Sir Lionel must bear a charmed life. The fact that
WE are alive is a miracle."
He glanced at his watch.
"Nearly eleven," he said. "But sleep seems a waste of time--
apart from its dangers."
We heard a bell ring. A few moments later followed a knock
at the room door.
"Come in!" I cried.
A girl entered with a telegram addressed to Smith.
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