| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: you buried your late captain, isn't it?" Then with
severity: "Don't you think, Mr. Burns, it's about
time you dropped all that nonsense?"
He rolled at me his deep-sunken eyes in a glance
of invincible obstinacy. But for the rest he only
muttered, just loud enough for me to hear, some-
thing about "Not surprised . . . find . . .
play us some beastly trick yet. . . ."
Such passages as this were not exactly whole-
some for my resolution. The stress of adversity
was beginning to tell on me. At the same time, I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: very patiently.
"If what you say is true, mistress," said he, "and God forbid that I
should be so ungallant as to throw doubt upon a lady's word, it
certainly explains - although most strangely - how the letter was not
brought to us at once by your brother and his friend Sir Rowland. You
are prepared to swear that this letter was intended for Mr. Wilding?"
"I am prepared to swear it," she replied.
"This is very serious," said the Duke.
"Very serious," assented Sir Edward Phelips.
Albemarle, a little flustered, turned to his colleagues. "What do you
say to this? Were it perhaps well to order Mr. Wilding's apprehension,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: AMADINE.
Ah, now I want my shepherd's company.
BREMO.
I'll crush thy bones betwixt two oaken trees.
AMADINE.
Haste, shepherd, haste, or else thou comst too late.
BREMO.
I'll suck the sweetness from thy marie bones.
AMADINE.
Ah spare, ah spare to shed my guiltless blood!
BREMO.
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