| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: the "influence of a pure honest woman, and an angel as well" had
saved him. When the man--startled at anything good being laid to
Mrs. Reiver's door--laughed, it cost him Moriarty's friendship.
Moriarty, who is married now to a woman ten thousand times better
than Mrs. Reiver--a woman who believes that there is no man on earth
as good and clever as her husband--will go down to his grave vowing
and protesting that Mrs. Reiver saved him from ruin in both worlds.
That she knew anything of Moriarty's weakness nobody believed for a
moment. That she would have cut him dead, thrown him over, and
acquainted all her friends with her discovery, if she had known of
it, nobody who knew her doubted for an instant.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: Signed by Mr. Pinkerton the banker."
The pandemonium of delight which turned itself loose now was of a
sort to make the judicious weep. Those whose withers were unwrung
laughed till the tears ran down; the reporters, in throes of
laughter, set down disordered pot-hooks which would never in the
world be decipherable; and a sleeping dog jumped up scared out of
its wits, and barked itself crazy at the turmoil. All manner of
cries were scattered through the din: "We're getting rich--TWO
Symbols of Incorruptibility!--without counting Billson!" "THREE!--
count Shadbelly in--we can't have too many!" "All right--Billson's
elected!" "Alas, poor Wilson! victim of TWO thieves!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: "These are home questions-- and perhaps I cannot say that I
have experienced many hardships of that nature. But in matters
of greater weight, I may suffer from want of money. Younger
sons cannot marry where they like."
"Unless where they like women of fortune, which I think they
very often do."
Our habits of expense make us too dependent, and there are too
many in my rank of life who can afford to marry without some
attention to money."
"Is this," thought Elizabeth, "meant for me?" and she coloured
at the idea; but, recovering herself, said in a lively tone, "And
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