| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: built. It the graveyard, originally Isaac Johnson's home-
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field, on one side, and so was well adapted to call up serious
reflections, suited to their respective employments, in both
minister and man of physic. The motherly care of the good widow
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: there is no suspicion on any one else, no possibility that any one
else could suffer the consequences of his deed - is quite
comprehensible - it is only natural and human."
Adele Bernauer sighed deeply again and heavy tears ran down her
cheeks, in strange contrast to the ghost of a smile that parted
her lips and shone in her dimmed eyes.
"You know him better than I do," she murmured almost inaudibly,
"you know him better than I do, and I have known him for so long."
A moment later Muller had parted from the housekeeper with a warm,
sincere pressure of the hand.
"Lieutenant Theobald Leining was here on a visit to his sister last
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton: The MILLER'S-THUMB, or BULL-HEAD, is a fish of no pleasing
shape. He is by Gesner compared to the Sea-toad-fish, for his similitude
and shape. It has a head big and flat, much greater than suitable to his
body; a mouth very wide, and usually gaping; he is without teeth, but
his lips are very rough, much like to a file. He hath two fins near to his
gills, which be roundish or crested; two fins also under the belly; two
on the back; one below the vent; and the fin of his tail is round. Nature
hath painted the body of this fish with whitish, blackish, brownish
spots. They be usually full of eggs or spawn all the summer, I mean the
females; and those eggs swell their vents almost into the form of a dug
They begin to spawn about April, and, as I told you, spawn several
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