| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: creeping out from his hiding-place, when another knock sent him
scuttling back to cover.
This last-comer came up the stairs so quietly that he was almost
abreast of Tommy before the young man had realized his presence.
He was a small man, very pale, with a gentle almost womanish air.
The angle of the cheek-bones hinted at his Slavonic ancestry,
otherwise there was nothing to indicate his nationality. As he
passed the recess, he turned his head slowly. The strange light
eyes seemed to burn through the curtain; Tommy could hardly
believe that the man did not know he was there and in spite of
himself he shivered. He was no more fanciful than the majority of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: and she would destroy it without reading it."
"Very possibly," Newman rejoined. "But she will not know.
I was in that convent yesterday and I know what SHE is doing.
Lord deliver us! You can guess whether it made me feel forgiving!"
M. de Bellegarde appeared to have nothing more to suggest;
but he continued to stand there, rigid and elegant, as a man who
believed that his mere personal presence had an argumentative value.
Newman watched him, and, without yielding an inch on the main issue,
felt an incongruously good-natured impulse to help him to retreat
in good order.
"Your visit's a failure, you see," he said. "You offer too little."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum: slowly wink at her. She thought she must have been mistaken at first,
for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the
figure nodded its head to her in a friendly way. Then she climbed
down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the
pole and barked.
"Good day," said the Scarecrow, in a rather husky voice.
"Did you speak?" asked the girl, in wonder.
"Certainly," answered the Scarecrow. "How do you do?"
"I'm pretty well, thank you," replied Dorothy politely.
"How do you do?"
"I'm not feeling well," said the Scarecrow, with a smile,
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