| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: considerably." She spoke rather quickly, because she found her
father's question the most awkward she had ever had to answer in
her life.
"Molly and you settled about the rooms. She said you HAD some
money."
"I borrowed it," said Ann Veronica in a casual tone, with white
despair in her heart.
"But who could have lent you money?"
"I pawned my pearl necklace. I got three pounds, and there's
three on my watch."
"Six pounds. H'm. Got the tickets? Yes, but then--you said you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: corridors beneath. At length he summoned me by a low,
"S-s-t," and I crept toward the sound of his voice to
find him kneeling on the brink of an opening in the floor.
"There is a drop here of about ten feet," he whispered.
"Hang by your hands and you will alight safely on a level
floor of soft sand."
Very quietly I lowered myself from the inky cell above into the
inky pit below. So utterly dark was it that we could not see
our hands at an inch from our noses. Never, I think, have I known
such complete absence of light as existed in the pits of Issus.
For an instant I hung in mid air. There is a strange sensation
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: them aloud. Norman of Torn, if you are not the son of
the old man you call father may God forfend that Eng-
land ever guesses your true parentage. More than this
I dare not say except that as you value your peace of
mind and your life, keep your visor down and keep
out of the clutches of your enemies."
"Then you know why I should keep my visor down?"
"I can only guess, Norman of Torn, because I have
seen another whom you resemble."
The conversation was interrupted by a commotion
from without; the sound of horses' hoofs, the cries of
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