| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: his chair until the wicker creaked under his weight, he waited
patiently for Kent to speak. It was fully five minutes before Kent
addressed him.
"So James Turnbull was poisoned after all," he commented. "A week
ago I would have sworn that Jimmie hadn't an enemy in the world."
"Ah, but he had; and a very bitter vindictive enemy, if the evidence
given at the coroner's inquest this afternoon is to be believed,"
replied Clymer seriously. "The case is remarkably puzzling."
"It is." Kent bit savagely at his cigar as a slight vent to his
feelings. "'Killed by a dose of aconitine by a person or persons
unknown,' was the jury's verdict, and a nice tangle they have left
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: 'On the contrary,' replied the Doctor. 'My observation has
confirmed my fears. It will not do, Otto, not do.'
'What will not do?' demanded the Prince, with a sickening stab of
pain.
'None of it,' answered Gotthold. 'You are unfitted for a life of
action; you lack the stamina, the habit, the restraint, the
patience. Your wife is greatly better, vastly better; and though
she is in bad hands, displays a very different aptitude. She is a
woman of affairs; you are - dear boy, you are yourself. I bid you
back to your amusements; like a smiling dominie, I give you holidays
for life. Yes,' he continued, 'there is a day appointed for all
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: always crowed a second time. 'Perdition seize the naughty fowl,'
he muttered, 'I have seen the day when, with my stout spear, I
would have run him through the gorge, and made him crow for me an
'twere in death!' He then retired to a comfortable lead coffin,
and stayed there till evening.
CHAPTER IV
THE next day the ghost was very weak and tired. The terrible
excitement of the last four weeks was beginning to have its effect.
His nerves were completely shattered, and he started at the
slightest noise. For five days he kept his room, and at last made
up his mind to give up the point of the blood-stain on the library
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