| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: only spoil your own life. There she is, poor thing, with her eyes full
of tears."
Vedie left the poor man utterly cast down; he dropped into an armchair
and gazed into vacancy like the melancholy imbecile that he was, and
forgot to shave. These alternations of tenderness and severity worked
upon this feeble creature whose only life was through his amorous
fibre, the same morbid effect which great changes from tropical heat
to arctic cold produce upon the human body. It was a moral pleurisy,
which wore him out like a physical disease. Flore alone could thus
affect him; for to her, and to her alone, he was as good as he was
foolish.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: None other than Mr. Samuel T. Philander. But it is true.
I can see your look of incredulity. Nor is this all.
He insisted that I return to the hotel with him, and there
I found the others--Professor Archimedes Q. Porter, Miss
Porter, and that enormous black woman, Miss Porter's maid
--Esmeralda, you will recall. While I was there Clayton
came in. They are to be married soon, or rather sooner, for
I rather suspect that we shall receive announcements almost
any day. On account of his father's death it is to be a
very quiet affair--only blood relatives.
While I was alone with Mr. Philander the old fellow became
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: the man you want will be here, a murderer caught in a net of
evidence so fine that a mosquito could not get through."
The detectives glanced at each other solemnly. Had they not in
their possession a sealskin bag containing a wallet and a bit of
gold chain, which, by putting the crime on me, would leave a gap
big enough for Sullivan himself to crawl through?
"Why don't you say your little speech before Johnson brings the
other man, Lawrence?" McKnight inquired. "They won't believe you,
but it will help them to understand what is coming."
"You understand, of course," the lean man put in gravely, "that what
you say may be used against you."
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