| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was
national property. I was determined that the law should have its
way in everything.
"'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It
would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the
house for five minutes.'
"'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you
have stolen,' said I. And then, realizing the dreadful position
in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only
my honor but that of one who was far greater than I was at
stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: prison work. I can understand you so well," she said to
Nekhludoff. "Micky (she meant her fat husband, Maslennikoff) may
have other defects, but you know how kind-hearted he is. All
these miserable prisoners are his children. He does not regard
them in any other light. II est d'une bonte---" and she stopped,
finding no words to do justice to this bonte of his, and quickly
turned to a shrivelled old woman with bows of lilac ribbon all
over, who came in just then.
Having said as much as was absolutely necessary, and with as
little meaning as conventionality required, Nekhludoff rose and
went up to Meslennikoff. "Can you give me a few minutes' hearing,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: remembrance that this man was chiefly PRONE among the ancient
matrons of her own political persuasion. It certainly seemed
probable that intelligence from the Continent, which could easily
have been transmitted by an active and powerful agent, might have
enabled him to prepare such a scene of phantasmagoria as she had
herself witnessed. Yet there were so many difficulties in
assigning a natural explanation, that, to the day of her death,
she remained in great doubt on the subject, and much disposed to
cut the Gordian knot by admitting the existence of supernatural
agency."
"But, my dear aunt," said I, "what became of the man of skill?"
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