| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: messenger took his leave, and the prisoners followed a very few minutes
afterwards."
Albemarle turned to the prisoners. "You have heard Mr. Trenchard's
story. How do you say - is it true or untrue?"
"You will waste breath in denying it," Trenchard took it again upon
himself to admonish them. "For I have with me the landlord of the
Hare and Hounds, who will corroborate, upon oath, what I have said."
"We do not deny it," put in Blake. "But we submit that the matter is
susceptible to explanation."
"You can keep your explanations till your trial, then," snapped
Albemarle. "I have heard more than enough to commit the pair of you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: With the yellow face of Doom.
He does not rise in piteous haste
To put on convict-clothes,
While some coarse-mouthed Doctor gloats,
and notes
Each new and nerve-twitched pose,
Fingering a watch whose little ticks
Are like horrible hammer-blows.
He does not know that sickening thirst
That sands one's throat, before
The hangman with his gardener's gloves
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: seems to me as if I couldn't go back there until the
year is up, or I shouldn't be myself, and it seems, too,
as if I should not be doing right by the girls. There
are things more important even than doing work for
others. I have got it through my head that I can
be dreadfully selfish being unselfish."
"Well, I suppose you are right," admitted Benny
with a sigh.
Then he kissed Annie and went away, and the
blackness of loneliness settled down upon her. She
had wondered at first that none of the village people
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