| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: learn it from me.
Well, I had gone as far as I meant to. I was not realy in love with
anyone, although I liked Carter Brooks, and would posibly have
loved him with all the depth of my Nature if Sis had not kept an
eye on me most of the time. However----
Jane seemed to be expecting somthing, and I tried to think of some
way to satisfy her and not make any trouble. And then I thought of
the Suitcase. So I locked the door and made her promise not to
tell, and got the whole thing out of the Toy Closet.
"Wha--what is it?" asked Jane.
I said nothing, but opened it all up. The Flask was gone, but the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: bore with military nonchalance, until, at the expiration of the
above period, a person dressed in black velvet, and wearing a
gold chain like a modern magistrate of Edinburgh, but who was, in
fact, steward of the household to the Marquis of Argyle, entered
the apartment, and invited, with solemn gravity, the Captain to
follow him to his master's presence.
The suite of apartments through which he passed, were filled with
attendants or visitors of various descriptions, disposed,
perhaps, with some ostentation, in order to impress the envoy of
Montrose with an idea of the superior power and magnificence
belonging to the rival house of Argyle. One ante-room was filled
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton: Vanderlyn?"
"Oh, not you," Susy cried, involuntarily.
"Not I? Then you?" He came close and took her by the wrist.
"Answer me. Have you been mixed up in some dirty business of
Ellie's?"
There was a pause. She found it impossible to speak, with that
burning grasp on the wrist where the bangle had been. At length
he let her go and moved away. "Answer," he repeated.
"I've told you it was my business and not yours."
He received this in silence; then he questioned: "You've been
sending letters for her, I suppose? To whom?"
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