| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: They carried her upstairs. She still insisted on clinging to Rhoda
Gray's hand.
"Don't leave me!" she pleaded again, as they reached the door of a
private room, and Rhoda Gray disengaged her hand gently.
"I'll stay outside here," Rhoda Gray promised. "I won't go away
without seeing you again.
Rhoda Gray sat down on a settee in the hall. She glanced at her
wrist watch. It was five minutes of eleven. Doctors and nurses
came and went from the room. Then a great quiet seemed to settle
down around her. A half hour passed. A doctor went into the room,
and presently came out again. She intercepted him as he came along
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: this cuff-link before?"
No, he never had, he said, but he looked at it oddly.
"I picked it up in the hall," I added indifferently. The old
man's eyes were shrewd under his bushy eyebrows.
"There's strange goin's-on here, Mis' Innes," he said, shaking
his head. "Somethin's goin' to happen, sure. You ain't took
notice that the big clock in the hall is stopped, I reckon?"
"Nonsense," I said. "Clocks have to stop, don't they, if they're
not wound?"
"It's wound up, all right, and it stopped at three o'clock last
night," he answered solemnly. "More'n that, that there clock
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce: chafed under the inglorious restraint, longing for the
release of his energies, the larger life of the soldier, the
opportunity for distinction. That opportunity, he felt,
would come, as it comes to all in wartime. Meanwhile he
did what he could. No service was too humble for him to
perform in the aid of the South, no adventure to perilous for
him to undertake if consistent with the character of a
civilian who was at heart a soldier, and who in good faith
and without too much qualification assented to at least a
part of the frankly villainous dictum that all is fair in
love and war.
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