| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: either her or himself, he followed the man.
The young Livonian, seeing the only being to whom she
could look for help disappear, fell back again on her bench.
Three minutes had not passed before Michael Strogoff
reappeared, accompanied by the agent. In his hand he
held his podorojna, which threw open the roads to Siberia
for him. He again approached the young Livonian, and
holding out his hand: "Sister," said he.
She understood. She rose as if some sudden inspiration
prevented her from hesitating a moment.
"Sister," repeated Michael Strogoff, "we are authorized
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: laity; and I heard plenty of complaints of Damien. Why was this
never mentioned? and how came it to you in the retirement of your
clerical parlour?
But I must not even seem to deceive you. This scandal, when I read
it in your letter, was not new to me. I had heard it once before;
and I must tell you how. There came to Samoa a man from Honolulu;
he, in a public-house on the beach, volunteered the statement that
Damien had "contracted the disease from having connection with the
female lepers"; and I find a joy in telling you how the report was
welcomed in a public-house. A man sprang to his feet; I am not at
liberty to give his name, but from what I heard I doubt if you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart: proved herself a trump in that trying time, waylaid him in the
hall, and he said it might be a fractured skull, although it was
possibly only concussion.
The men spent most of the morning together in the den, with the
door shut. Now and then one of them would tiptoe upstairs, ask
the nurse how her patient was doing, and creak down again. Just
before noon they all went to the roof and examined again the
place where he had been found. I know, for I was in the upper
hall outside the studio. I stayed there almost all day, and after
a while the nurse let me bring her things as she needed them. I
don't know why mother didn't let me study nursing--I always
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