| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "He's gone, all right," he said ruefully. "If you'd been attending
to your business, Robison, you'd have watched the back door."
"I'm not twins." Robison was surly.
"Well," I broke in, as cheerfully as I could, "if you are through
with this jolly little affair, and can get down my ladder without
having my housekeeper ring the burglar alarm, I have some good
Monongahela whisky - eh?"
They came without a second invitation across the roof, and with
them safely away from the house I breathed more freely. Down in
the den I fulfilled my promise, which Johnson drank to the toast,
"Coming through the rye." He examined my gun rack with the eye
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: it extenuates instead the painful consequences. It is not so much
for this world, as for the next; it is not against life; in short,
it is against death that I have fitted you out. And when you come
to die, you will give me news of my paint."
"Oh!" cried the young man, "I had not understood that, and it seems
a little disappointing. But there is no doubt all is for the best:
and in the meanwhile, I shall be obliged if you will help me to
undo the evil I have brought on innocent persons."
"That is none of my business," said the physician; "but if you will
go round the corner to the police office, I feel sure it will
afford you relief to give yourself up."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: Ham. Sir, a whole History
Guild. The King, sir
Ham. I sir, what of him?
Guild. Is in his retyrement, maruellous distemper'd
Ham. With drinke Sir?
Guild. No my Lord, rather with choller
Ham. Your wisedome should shew it selfe more richer,
to signifie this to his Doctor: for for me to put him
to his Purgation, would perhaps plundge him into farre
more Choller
Guild. Good my Lord put your discourse into some
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