| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: nine days before. With the new restraint between us, I did not tell
McKnight. I wondered afterward if he had suspected it. I saw him
looking hard at the gate-post which had figured in one of our
mysteries, but he asked no questions. Afterward he grew almost
taciturn, for him, and let me do most of the talking.
We opened the front gate of the Carter place and went slowly up the
walk. Two ragged youngsters, alike even to freckles and squints,
were playing in the yard.
"Is your mother around?" I asked.
"In the front room. Walk in," they answered in identical tones.
As we got to the porch we heard voices, and stopped. I knocked,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: a scion of a ruling house and--and a common mortal.
They made Eugenia a Baroness, poor woman; but that was all
they could do. Now they want to dissolve the marriage.
Prince Adolf, between ourselves, is a ninny; but his brother,
who is a clever man, has plans for him. Eugenia, naturally enough,
makes difficulties; not, however, that I think she cares much--
she 's a very clever woman; I 'm sure you 'll like her--
but she wants to bother them. Just now everything is en l'air."
The cheerful, off-hand tone in which her visitor related this
darkly romantic tale seemed to Gertrude very strange; but it
seemed also to convey a certain flattery to herself, a recognition
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: SOCRATES: And these men by the arts which they profess, and in exchange
for them, obtain the necessities of life just as we do by means of gold and
silver?
ERYXIAS: True.
SOCRATES: Then if they procure by this means what they want for the
purposes of life, that art will be useful towards life? For do we not say
that silver is useful because it enables us to supply our bodily needs?
ERYXIAS: We do.
SOCRATES: Then if these arts are reckoned among things useful, the arts
are wealth for the same reason as gold and silver are, for, clearly, the
possession of them gives wealth. Yet a little while ago we found it
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