| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: wide open your way, and you win. And Pierre's going through for a
clean-up. To-morrow you can swell around in a limousine again. And
maybe you'll come around and take me for a drive, if I dress up, and
promise to hide in a corner of the back seat so's they won't see your
handsome friend!"
The creature flung a bitter smile at her, and lurched on.
He had told her what she wanted to know - more than she had hoped
for. The mystery that surrounded the character of Gypsy Nan, the
evidence of the crime at which the woman who had originated that
role had hinted on the night she died, and which must necessarily
involve Danglar, was hers, Rhoda Gray's, now for the taking. As
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: to be in possession of concerning the authors of his misfortunes.
Hobbie, though blunt, plain of speech, and hot of disposition,
like most of his countrymen, was by no means deficient in the
shrewdness which is also their characteristic. He reflected,
that from what he had observed on the memorable night when the
Dwarf was first seen, and from the conduct of that mysterious
being ever since, he was likely to be rendered even more
obstinate in his sullenness by threats and violence.
"I'll speak him fair," he said, "as auld Dickon advised me.
Though folk say he has a league wi' Satan, he canna be sic an
incarnate devil as no to take some pity in a case like mine; and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: and inconsecutively, and then he became restless. Should he call
her?
But he wanted their talk to begin in a natural-seeming way. He
did not want the portentousness of "wanting to speak" to her and
calling her out to him. He got up at last and went back into the
other room. Clementina had gone upstairs, and the book she had
been reading was lying closed on the sideboard. He saw it was one
of Chasters' books, he took it up, it was "The Core of Truth in
Christianity," and he felt an irrational shock at the idea of
Clementina reading it. In spite of his own immense changes of
opinion he had still to revise his conception of the polemical
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