| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: look, brother, for a moment, at their clothing. At the first
blush- I use the word advisedly- it would seem that, like the
fruit from which they take their name- "
"I thought you'd better do some tricks," said Daphne, throwing a
dark look in my direction.
"Of course," I said; "the very thing. I've always been so good
at tricks."
"I mean it," said Daphne.
"Of course you do. What about the confidence trick? Can any
lady oblige me with a public-house?"
"She means trick-cycling, stupid," said Berry. "Riding
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: looked positively like, an exile in a provincial town, and with his
drawing-room manner - what could he know of negroes?
Mills, sitting silent with his air of watchful intelligence, seemed
to read my thoughts, waved his pipe slightly and explained: "The
Captain is from South Carolina."
"Oh," I murmured, and then after the slightest of pauses I heard
the second of Mr. J. K. Blunt's declarations.
"Yes," he said. "Je suis Americain, catholique et gentil-homme,"
in a tone contrasting so strongly with the smile, which, as it
were, underlined the uttered words, that I was at a loss whether to
return the smile in kind or acknowledge the words with a grave
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: the Dunedin police force, Inspector Mallard. They discussed the
crimes of Charles Peace and other notable artists of that kind.
Butler remarked to Mallard how easy it would be to destroy all
traces of a murder by fire, and asked the inspector whether if he
woke up one morning to find some brutal murder had been
committed, he would not put it down to him. "No, Butler,"
replied the inspector, "the first thing I should do would be to
look for suspicious circumstances, and most undoubtedly, if they
pointed to you, you would be looked after."
In the early morning of this Saturday, March 13, the house of a
Mr. Stamper, a solicitor of Dunedin, had been broken into, and
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