| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this
poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing."
"I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the
charge against him will break down."
"Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account
of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came
the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies
your only hope of safety."
Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you
it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been
arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: sign his full name, and he wondered what confidences McIntyre had
made to the bank president.
Tossing down the note, Kent lighted his pipe, tilted back in his
swivel chair, and reviewed the facts which implicated Rochester in
Jimmie Turnbull's murder. Rochester's quarrels with Jimmie, his
persistent assertion that his friend had died from angina pectoris,
his unexplained disappearance on Tuesday night, the fake telegram
from Cleveland stating he was there, the withdrawal of his bank
deposits, the forged checks, his mysterious visits to his own
apartment, when considered together, presented a chain of
circumstantial evidence connecting him with the crime. But in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: 'Xavier Rabourdin, chef du bureau'?"
Colleville. "Bless you, so I have!"
Bixiou [mending his pen]. "And what did you make of it?"
Colleville. "It comes out as follows: D'abord reva bureaux, E-u,--(you
catch the meaning? et eut--and had) E-u fin riche; which signifies
that after first belonging to the administration, he gave it up and
got rich elsewhere." [Repeats.] "D'abord reva bureaux, E-u fin riche."
Dutocq. "That IS queer!"
Bixiou. "Try Isidore Baudoyer."
Colleville [mysteriously]. "I sha'n't tell the other anagrams to any
one but Thuillier."
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