| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her
mysterious end."
"What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the
very peculiar words of the dying woman?"
"I cannot think."
"When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of
a band of gypsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor,
the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has
an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying
allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner
heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: Alone and high-hearted as if I were a queen.
What have I to fear in life or death
Who have known three things: the kiss in the night,
The white flying joy when a song is born,
And meadowlarks whistling in silver light.
Driftwood
My forefathers gave me
My spirit's shaken flame,
The shape of hands, the beat of heart,
The letters of my name.
But it was my lovers,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Prosper our colors in this dangerous fight!
[Exeunt.]
SCENE III. Plains in Gascony.
[Enter a Messenger that meets York. Enter York with trumpet and
many soldiers.]
YORK.
Are not the speedy scouts return'd again,
That dogg'd the mighty army of the Dauphin?
MESSENGER.
They are return'd, my lord, and give it out
That he is march'd to Bordeaux with his power,
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