| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ebb-Tide by Stevenson & Osbourne: like God!'
There was a silence. Davis stood with contorted brows, gazing
into the night.
'The pearls?' he said suddenly. 'He showed them to you? he
has them?'
'No, he didn't show them; I forgot: only the safe
they were in,' said Herrick. 'But you'll never get them!'
'I've two words to say to that,' said the captain.
'Do you think he would have been so easy at table, unless he
was prepared?' cried Herrick. 'The servants were both armed.
He was armed himself; he always is; he told me. You will never
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: "Yes," she said.
"All right, then; that end of it is up to you," he said significantly.
"You're clever, clever as the devil, Bertha. Use your brains now
- we need 'em. Good-night, old girl. See you later."
"Good-night," said Rhoda Gray dully.
The door closed. The short, ladder-like steps to the hallway below
creaked once, and then all was still. Danglar did have on
rubber-soled shoes. She sat upright, her hands, clenched now,
pressed hard against her throbbing temples. It wasn't true! None
of this was true - this hovel of a place, those jewels glinting
like evil eyes in her lap; her existence itself wasn't true; it was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: And on the murderer this curse I lay
(On him and all the partners in his guilt):--
Wretch, may he pine in utter wretchedness!
And for myself, if with my privity
He gain admittance to my hearth, I pray
The curse I laid on others fall on me.
See that ye give effect to all my hest,
For my sake and the god's and for our land,
A desert blasted by the wrath of heaven.
For, let alone the god's express command,
It were a scandal ye should leave unpurged
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