| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: together and his mouth set tight to a narrow line. His eyes fairly
bored themselves into the patient's eyes with an expression like
that of a hypnotiser.
Muller knew now what he wanted to know. This young man understood
how to bend the will of others, even the will of a sick mind, to
his own desires. The little silent scene he had watched had lasted
just the length of time it had taken the detective to walk through
the room and hold out his hand to the patient.
"I don't want to disturb you, Mr. Varna," he said in a friendly
tone, with a motion towards the bench from which the mechanician
had just arisen. Varna sat down again, obedient as a child. He
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: he was indeed a grim and mighty man, and at his back
rode as ferocious and awe-inspiring a pack as ever I
beheld outside a prison; fully a thousand strong they
rode. They be camped not far without the city now."
"My Lord," said Henry, turning to Simon de Mont-
fort, "be it not time that England were rid of this
devil's spawn and his hellish brood? Though I pre-
sume," he added, a sarcastic sneer upon his lip, "that it
may prove embarrassing for My Lord Earl of Leicester
to turn upon his companion in arms."
"I owe him nothing," returned the Earl haughtily,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: must figure some fine Sunday on the stool of repentance,
would there not be a sort of glory, an infernal apotheosis,
in so conspicuous a shame? Was not Richelieu in disgrace
more idolised than ever by the dames of Paris? and when was
the highwayman most acclaimed but on his way to Tyburn? Or,
to take a simile from nearer home, and still more exactly to
the point, what could even corporal punishment avail,
administered by a cold, abstract, unearthly school-master,
against the influence and fame of the school's hero?
And now we come to the culminating point of Burns's early
period. He began to be received into the unknown upper
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