| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: him. Then I turned to his mistress. She had discarded her white
hat and drawn on a long dust-coat, which reached almost to her
ankles. She held it close about her, as she walked. It showed
off her slim figure to great advantage. Below, the wide edges of
white duck trousers just appeared above shining insteps and high
heeled shoes.
When the urchin had come up, she took the jug from him with both
hands.
"I shall have to drink out of it," she said, raising it to her
lips with a smile.
"Of course. Why not? Only ..."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: Alfred turned again to the officer, then to Jimmy, who was still
flashing defiance into the officer's threatening eyes.
"My God!" he exclaimed, "this is awful. What's the matter with
you, Jimmy? This is the third time that you have tried to take my
baby out into the night."
"Then you've had trouble with him before?" remarked the officer.
He studied Jimmy with new interest, proud in the belief that he
had brought a confirmed "baby-snatcher" to justice.
"I've had a little trouble myself," declared Jimmy hotly, now
resolved to make a clean breast of it.
"I'm not asking about your troubles," interrupted the officer
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: happened. But I felt something solemn and sacred within me which
made me ask for a priest. I was led to one; and there alone,
after he had given me the positive order, I spoke as best I
could, kneeling, and with my heart still trembling. I could give
no account to myself of the truth of which I had acquired a
knowledge and a faith. All that I can say is that in an instant
the bandage had fallen from my eyes, and not one bandage only,
but the whole manifold of bandages in which I had been brought
up. One after another they rapidly disappeared, even as the mud
and ice disappear under the rays of the burning sun.
"I came out as from a sepulchre, from an abyss of darkness; and I
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