| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: made a step, and would have put his arm round her, but she backed
against the wall, staring speechless at him.
"I am not going to let him shoot me," he said quietly.
"You mean--you mean--but you can come away!" she cried. "It's not
too late yet. You can take yourself out of his reach. Everybody
knows that you are brave. What is he to you? You can leave him in
this place. I'll go with you anywhere. To any house, to the
mountains, to anywhere away. We'll leave this horrible place
together and--and--oh, won't you listen to me?" She stretched her
hands to him. "Won't you listen?"
He took her hands. "I must stay here."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: connection is equally close - as it now appears to my awakened and
somewhat humbled spirit. For all that, let me thank you in the
warmest manner for your friendly readiness to contribute. You say
you have hopes of becoming a miser: I wish I had; but indeed I
believe you deceive yourself, and are as far from it as ever. I
wish I had any excuse to keep your cheque, for it is much more
elegant to receive than to return; but I have my way of making it
up to you, and I do sincerely beg you to write to the two
Governors. This extraordinary outpouring of correspondence would
(if you knew my habits) convince you of my great eagerness in this
matter. I would promise gratitude; but I have made a promise to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: But she had gone!
As I leapt to the door the key turned gently from the outside.
"Ma 'alesh!" came her soft whisper; "but I am afraid to
trust you--yet. Be comforted, for there is one near who would
have killed you had I wished it. Remember, I will come to you
whenever you will take me and hide me."
Light footsteps pattered down the stairs. I heard a stifled
cry from Mrs. Dolan as the mysterious visitor ran past her.
The front door opened and closed.
CHAPTER V
"Shen-Yan's is a dope-shop in one of the burrows off the old Ratcliff Highway,"
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