| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: participation in her fraud; but there's no doubt that she must be
married: I don't know what I don't see behind it! Therefore," I
wound up, "Dawling must keep his hands off."
Mrs. Meldrum had held her breath; she gave out a long moan. "Well,
that's exactly what I came here to tell him."
"Then here he is." Our host, all unprepared, his latchkey still in
his hand, had just pushed open the door and, startled at finding
us, turned a frightened look from one to the other, wondering what
disaster we were there to announce or avert.
Mrs. Meldrum was on the spot all gaiety. "I've come to return your
sweet visit. Ah," she laughed, "I mean to keep up the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: is 175,000 francs."
"What you say is absurd, and I cannot see why M. Debray's
name is mixed up in this affair."
"Because if you do not possess the 175,000 francs I reclaim,
you must have lent them to your friends, and M. Debray is
one of your friends."
"For shame!" exclaimed the baroness.
"Oh, let us have no gestures, no screams, no modern drama,
or you will oblige me to tell you that I see Debray leave
here, pocketing the whole of the 500,000 livres you have
handed over to him this year, while he smiles to himself,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde: Worthing has not quite finished yet.
LADY BRACKNELL. Finished what, may I ask?
GWENDOLEN. I am engaged to Mr. Worthing, mamma. [They rise
together.]
LADY BRACKNELL. Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When
you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his
health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement
should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant,
as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be
allowed to arrange for herself . . . And now I have a few questions
to put to you, Mr. Worthing. While I am making these inquiries,
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