| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: But Clon's excitement surpassed even his. The dumb man no sooner
saw what had attracted his comrade's attention, than he uttered
an inarticulate and horrible noise, and tumbling off his horse,
more like a beast than a man threw himself bodily on the precious
morsel.
The innkeeper was not far behind him. An instant and he was
down, too, peering at the thing; and for an instant I thought
that they would fight over it. However, though their jealousy
was evident, their excitement cooled a little when they
discovered that the scrap of stuff was empty; for, fortunately,
the pebble had fallen out of it. Still, it threw them into such
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: the report myself."
Hester clung to her sister, begging and imploring.
"Don't, Hannah, oh, don't--you will kill her."
"I will at least speak the truth."
In the morning she had a cruel report to bear to the mother,
and she braced herself for the trial. When she returned from
her mission, Hester was waiting, pale and trembling, in the hall.
She whispered:
"Oh, how did she take it--that poor, desolate mother?"
Hannah's eyes were swimming in tears. She said:
"God forgive me, I told her the child was well!"
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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: got there, the place was charming. There were no neighbors, but we
fished and rode and motored, and - it was moonlight, like this."
I put my hand over both of hers, clasped in her lap. "I know," I
acknowledged repentantly, "and - people do queer things when it is
moonlight. The moon has got me to-night, Alison. If I am a boor,
remember that, won't you?"
Her fingers lay quiet under mine. "And so," she went on with a
little sigh, "I began to think perhaps I cared. But. all the time
felt that there was something not quite right. Now and then Mrs.
Curtis would say or do something that gave me a queer start, as if
she had dropped a mask for a moment. And there was trouble with the
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