| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: was saying. "It be a noble and stately hall far from the
beaten way. It was built in the old days by Harold the
Saxon, but in later times death and poverty and the
disfavor of the King have wrested it from his descend-
ants. A few years since Henry granted it to that spend-
thrift favorite of his, Henri de Macy, who pledged it
to me for a sum he hath been unable to repay. Today
it be my property, and as it be far from Paris you may
have it for the mere song I have named. It be a won-
drous bargain, madame."
"And when I come upon it I shall find that I have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: was the Mephistopheles of his DOCTOR FAUSTUS. No doubt, Marlowe
was fascinated by the beauty and grace of the boy-actor, and lured
him away from the Blackfriars Theatre, that he might play the
Gaveston of his EDWARD II. That Shakespeare had the legal right to
retain Willie Hughes in his own company is evident from Sonnet
LXXXVII., where he says:-
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,
And like enough thou know'st thy estimate:
The CHARTER OF THY WORTH gives thee releasing;
My BONDS in thee are all determinate.
For how do I hold thee but by thy granting?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: lodger.
My brother answered him vaguely and began to dress,
running with each garment to the window in order to miss
nothing of the growing excitement. And presently men selling
unnaturally early newspapers came bawling into the street:
"London in danger of suffocation! The Kingston and Rich-
mond defences forced! Fearful massacres in the Thames
Valley!"
And all about him--in the rooms below, in the houses on
each side and across the road, and behind in the Park Ter-
races and in the hundred other streets of that part of Maryle-
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