The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: With trembling hands the girl tore open the envelope. It enclosed
still another sealed envelope, without an address. But there was
a sheet of paper around this letter, on which was written the
following:
My beloved Eleonore:
Before you read what I have to say to you here I want you to promise
me, in memory of our love and by your hope of future salvation, that
you will do what I ask you to do.
I ask you to give the enclosed letter, although it is addressed to
you, to the Judge who will preside in the trial against Graumann.
The letter is written to you and will be given back to you. For
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: What next?"
"Nay, I am something oblivious," replied the man of wisdom--" he
invited them to a goblet of NIERENSTEIN."
"That hath a show of wisdom in it," said Jonas. "Thou mayest
mark it to thy credit in the meantime; but an he drink too much,
as is most likely, I will have it pass to mine. Anything more?"
"Nothing worth memory," answered the orator; "only he wished he
had taken the occasion to meet Richard in the lists."
"Out upon it--out upon it!" said Jonas; "this is such dotage of
folly that I am well-nigh ashamed of winning the game by it.
Ne'ertheless, fool as he is, we will follow him, most sage
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: left me to throw was a sufficient implication of the weight HE had
thrown in vain. Oh she knew the question of character was immense,
and that one couldn't entertain any plan for making merit
comfortable without running the gauntlet of that terrible
procession of interrogation-points which, like a young ladies'
school out for a walk, hooked their uniform noses at the tail of
governess Conduct. But were we absolutely to hold that there was
never, never, never an exception, never, never, never an occasion
for liberal acceptance, for clever charity, for suspended pedantry-
-for letting one side, in short, outbalance another? When Miss
Anvoy threw off this appeal I could have embraced her for so
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