| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: to the desk and softly took a little bottle from under the
handkerchief. Langen came out of his dark thoughts only when
Muller's voice broke the silence. "But you miscalculated, if you
expected to inherit from your sister. She is still a minor and
your father's will would have given you only ten thousand guldens.
"But you forget that Asta will be twenty-four on the third of
December."
"Ah, then you would have kept her alive until then."
"You understand quickly," said Langen with a mocking smile.
"But she disappeared on the eighteenth of November. How could you
prove that she died after her birthday, therefore in full possession
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: recommending to me; and that if I was not very easy and happy in
the world, it must be my mere fate or fault that must hinder it;
and that he should have nothing to answer for, having thus
discharged his duty in warning me against measures which he knew
would be to my hurt; in a word, that as he would do very kind
things for me if I would stay and settle at home as he directed, so
he would not have so much hand in my misfortunes as to give me any
encouragement to go away; and to close all, he told me I had my
elder brother for an example, to whom he had used the same earnest
persuasions to keep him from going into the Low Country wars, but
could not prevail, his young desires prompting him to run into the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: the railway track between here and Venice. How could you think for
a moment that he would leave it behind him, here in his room, or
dropped in the garden? But this was doubtless due to the confusion
owing to your sudden alarm and anxiety - a confusion which prevented
you from realising the danger of the two peculiarly hung mirrors in
Mr. Thorne's room. These should have been taken away at once. This
morning my sudden appearance at the garden gate prevented you from
making an examination of the place of the murder. Your swoon, after
I had spoken to you in the butler's room, showed me that you were
carrying a burden too heavy for your strength. Finally, this
afternoon, you drove to the main telegraph office in the city, as
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