| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: when he returned with his wife from an excursion to Torcello. It
had caused him a sleepless night, for it had brought the realisation
that his faithful nurse suspected the truth about the murder in the
quiet lane. The telegram had read as follows: "Have drawn money and
send it at once. Further journey probably necessary, visitor in
house to-day. Connected with occurrence in -Street. Please read
Viennese papers. News and orders for me please send to address A.B.
General Postoffice."
This telegram told Herbert Thorne the truth. And the papers which
arrived this morning were to tell him more - what he did not yet
know. But his heart was drawn with terrors which threw lines in his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: Quite suddenly the true light flashed upon me. I had been slow-sighted
indeed! So that was what she had come here for to-day! Miss Hortense was
going to pay her compliments to Miss La Heu. I believe that my sight
might still have been slow but for that miraculous sweetness upon the
face of Eliza. She was ready for the compliments! Well, I sat expectant--
and disappointment was by no means my lot.
Hortense finished her lunch. "And so this interesting place is where you
work?"
Eliza, thus addressed, assented.
"And you furnish wedding cakes also?"
Eliza was continuously and miraculously sweet. "The Exchange includes
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: rule.
II.
Doctors, they knaws nowt, for a says what's nawways
true:
Naw soort o' koind o' use to saay the things that
a do.
I've 'ed my point o' yaale ivry noight sin' I bean
'ere,
An' I've 'ed my quart ivry market-noight for foorty
year.
III.
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