| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: herself guide. We never asked her to. But as such we just
accepted her. We were quite passive in the matter. Going, she
had guided us with a careless confidence which shamed suspicion.
But coming back, she had early displayed unmistakable signs of
hesitation and anxiety. Thereafter she had plunged desperately,
with the result that at three o'clock we found ourselves reduced
to a swine-herd who had been drinking. The latter detailed to
us four several routes, and assured us that it was utterly
impossible to miss any one of them.
To put it quite shortly, he was mistaken.
Within half an hour we had missed them all. Lost on a heath
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: forward, and keep your eyes open and your tongue oiled. Wit and a
good exterior - there is all life in a nutshell.
I had at first a rather chequered journey: got involved in gardens,
butted into houses, and had even once the misfortune to awake a
sleeping family, the father of which, as I suppose, menaced me from
the window with a blunderbuss. Altogether, though I had been some
time gone from my companions, I was still at no great distance,
when a miserable accident put a period to the escape. Of a sudden
the night was divided by a scream. This was followed by the sound
of something falling, and that again by the report of a musket from
the Castle battlements. It was strange to hear the alarm spread
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: a long time in the drawing room, he went away taking the police dogs
with him, and later called to bring them back."
"Where were these dogs on Monday night?"
"I last saw them in the library," replied Grimes shortly.
"And where did you find them the next morning?" prompted the coroner.
"In the cellar," laconically.
"And what were they doing in the cellar?"
"Hunting rats."
"And how did the dogs get in the cellar?" inquired the coroner
patiently. Grimes was not volunteering information, even if he
could not be accused of holding it back.
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