| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: rest, until the room filled silently, as if these men had
been the humblest, most devoted courtiers. Far beyond the
door the heads of those who were not able to enter could be
seen, all craning to their utmost height to try and see.
D'Artagnan saw it all through an opening he had made in the
curtain, and in the very first man who entered he recognized
Planchet.
"Sir," said the queen to him, thinking he was the leader of
the band, "you wished to see the king and therefore I
determined to show him to you myself. Approach and look at
him and say if we have the appearance of people who wish to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry: all are all right. I think it's the duty of every citizen,' says he,
'to try to do up these robbers that prey upon the public. I'll show
'em whether the water's fine. Five dollars for one--that's what J.
Smith offers, and he'll have to keep his contract if he does business
with Bill Murkison.'
"We got into Chicago about 7 P.M. Murkison was to meet the gray man at
half past 9. We had dinner at a hotel and then went up to Murkison's
room to wait for the time to come.
"'Now, boys,' says Murkison, 'let's get our gumption together and
inoculate a plan for defeating the enemy. Suppose while I'm exchanging
airy bandage with the gray capper you gents come along, by accident,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad: "Much YOU know about the management of children." The corners of
her lips stirred quaintly; her animosity, especially when provoked
by a personal attack upon herself, was always tinged by a sort of
wistful humour of the most disarming kind.
"Come, amigo George, let us leave poor Rose alone. You had better
tell me what you heard from the lips of the charming old lady.
Perfection, isn't she? I have never seen her in my life, though
she says she has seen me several times. But she has written to me
on three separate occasions and every time I answered her as if I
were writing to a queen. Amigo George, how does one write to a
queen? How should a goatherd that could have been mistress of a
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