| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: I did not know very well what to answer, and stood silent.
There seemed to be something working in her bosom after that last cry;
presently she broke out, "And what is the meaning of all this? Why is
all this shame loundered on my head? How could you dare it, David
Balfour?"
"My dear," said I, "what else was I to do?"
"I am not your dear," she said, "and I defy you to be calling me these
words."
"I am not thinking of my words," said I. "My heart bleeds for you,
Miss Drummond. Whatever I may say, be sure you have my pity in your
difficult position. But there is just the one thing that I wish you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: road.
As I strolled towards the dining-room, wheels crunched on the
gravel-drive. I turned to see a wagonette swinging down the
avenue.
There was a writing-table in the bedroom window, and before I
crept out of the room I sat down and wrote a few lines :
"To THE HOUSEKEEPER- "Lady Pan and I regret the unfortunate
confusion for which a certain similarity of name and title has
been responsible.
"(SIR) PETER PAN.)
Then I took a five-pound note from my case and slipped it into
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: and the others, stiffly and hesitatingly, got to their
knees beside her. Mr. Miles knelt, too. "And now pray
with me--you know this prayer," he said, and he began:
"Our Father which art in Heaven..." One or two of the
women falteringly took the words up, and when he ended,
the lank-haired man flung himself on the neck of the
tall youth. "It was this way," he said. "I tole her
the night before, I says to her..." The reminiscence
ended in a sob.
Mr. Miles had been getting into his coat again. He
came up to Charity, who had remained passively kneeling
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