| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: face. Then he continued: "Yes, someone would have found her, and
her suicide would have been a dark mystery, unless, of course,
malicious tongues would have found ugly reasons enough why a
beautiful young lady should hide herself in a lonely cottage to
take her own life."
Muller had spoken as if to himself. Egon Langen's lips, parted in
a smile so evil that Amster clenched his fists.
"And you would not have regretted this ruining the reputation as
well as taking the life of an innocent girl?" asked the detective
low and tense.
"No, for I hated her."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: and they were just growing again like themselves, (Harriet, as Emma
must suspect, as ready as the best of them to be cordial and happy,)
when the carriage reappeared, and all was over. The style of
the visit, and the shortness of it, were then felt to be decisive.
Fourteen minutes to be given to those with whom she had thankfully
passed six weeks not six months ago!--Emma could not but picture
it all, and feel how justly they might resent, how naturally
Harriet must suffer. It was a bad business. She would have given
a great deal, or endured a great deal, to have had the Martins
in a higher rank of life. They were so deserving, that a little
higher should have been enough: but as it was, how could she have
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: as one of his gravity and station could, with any regard to that
decency and decorum which men in high places are expected to
maintain.
Mr Tappertit did not stop here, as many public characters might
have done, but calling up his brace of lieutenants, introduced Hugh
to them with high commendation; declaring him to be a man who, at
such times as those in which they lived, could not be too much
cherished. Further, he did him the honour to remark, that he would
be an acquisition of which even the United Bulldogs might be proud;
and finding, upon sounding him, that he was quite ready and willing
to enter the society (for he was not at all particular, and would
Barnaby Rudge |
