| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: out, locked the front door and began to clear out the stoves in
the other lecture-rooms. When he reached Webster's he was
surprised to find that both doors, that of the lecture room and
that of the lower laboratory, were either locked or bolted.
He could hear nothing but the running of water in one of the
sinks. About half-past five Littlefield saw the Professor coming
down the back stairs with a lighted candle in his hand. Webster
blew out the candle and left the building. Late that night
Littlefield again tried the Professor's doors; they were still
fastened. The janitor was surprised at this, as he had never
known such a thing to happen before.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: It carefully and calculatingly distributed his riches among
the members of his family, overlooking no individual of it. Not
even his wife: the wife he had been enabled to marry in a hurry
by urgent grace of a special dispensation before he was nineteen;
the wife whom he had left husbandless so many years; the wife who
had had to borrow forty-one shillings in her need, and which the
lender was never able to collect of the prosperous husband, but
died at last with the money still lacking. No, even this wife
was remembered in Shakespeare's will.
He left her that "second-best bed."
And NOT ANOTHER THING; not even a penny to bless her lucky
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: one had jumped out of the way. The table, the bottles, the chairs were
knocked over and scattered. The noise was as great as if the cottage
itself had come tumbling down.
"I'm dead! The scoundrel has killed me!"
The words and the flight of the old woman were explained by the
apparition on the threshold of a keeper, dressed in green livery,
wearing a hat edged with silver cord, a sabre at his side, a leathern
shoulder-belt bearing the arms of Montcornet charged with those of the
Troisvilles, the regulation red waistcoat, and buckskin gaiters which
came above the knee.
After a moment's hesitation the keeper said, looking at Brunet and
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