| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: door did not lock on the inside; and the only sign of adornment was a
couple of framed pictures, one close above the head of the bed, and
the other opposite the foot, and both curtained, as we may sometimes
see valuable water-colours, or the portraits of the dead, or works of
art more than usually skittish in the subject. It was perhaps in the
hope of finding something of this last description that M'Naughten's
comrade pulled aside the curtain of the first. He was startlingly
disappointed. There was no picture. The frame surrounded, and the
curtain was designed to hide, an oblong aperture in the partition,
through which they looked forth into the dark corridor. A person
standing without could easily take a purse from under the pillow, or
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: was compelled to allow his friend to escape
unmolested with his packet. And for this he
took unto himself considerable credit. It was a
generous thing.
His friend at his side seemed suffering great
shame. As he contemplated him, the youth felt
his heart grow more strong and stout. He had
never been compelled to blush in such manner
for his acts; he was an individual of extraordi-
nary virtues.
He reflected, with condescending pity: "Too
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: have a ball."
"Can't have got--return--exceptionally--and the round table--pull
out hairs wi' tu clamsh'ls," gabbled Wilbur's stupefied double;
and Wilbur the alert said to himself: "You're not drunk, Ross
Wilbur, that's certain; what could they have put in your
cocktail?"
The iridescent sweater stamped twice upon the floor and a trap-
door fell away beneath Wilbur's feet like the drop of a gallows.
With the eyes of his undrugged self Wilbur had a glimpse of water
below. His elbow struck the floor as he went down, and he fell
feet first into a Whitehall boat. He had time to observe two men
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