| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: ``Sister Helen Vincula, I must ask you something--''
Sister Helen Vincula and the lady talked a long time.
Bessie Bell did not listen very much to what they said.
She did not lean up against the lady now, but she sat close. Sister
Helen Vincula did not seem to mind that.
She did not swing her foot to and fro now, but she still felt very
contented and happy to have met the very Wisest Woman.
When she did listen a little she heard the lady say:
``There came news that my husband was ill in Mobile, and I feared
that it was of the Dreadful Fever, and I hurried there so that I
could get to him before the Dreadful Quarantines were put on. I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: The eternal asker of answers becomes as the darkness,
Or as a wind blown over a myriad forest,
Or as the numberless voices of long-drawn rains.
We hear him and take him among us like a wind of music,
Like the ghost of a music we have somewhere heard;
We crowd through the streets in a dazzle of pallid lamplight,
We pour in a sinister mass, we ascend a stair,
With laughter and cry, with word upon murmured word,
We flow, we descend, we turn. . . . and the eternal dreamer
Moves on among us like light, like evening air . . .
Good night! good night! good night! we go our ways,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: among them with a sounder heart or better disposition.
"I've got a story to tell you, Lieutenant O'Connor," he began.
"I've been meaning to see you and tell it ever since you made
good in that Fernendez matter. It wasn't your gameness. Anybody
can be game. But it looked to me like you were using the brains
in the top of your head, and that happens so seldom among law
officers I wanted to have a talk with you. Since yesterday I've
been more anxious. For why? I got a letter from my brother
telling me Sheriff Collins showed him a locket he found at the
place of the T. P. Limited hold-up. That locket has in it a
photograph of my wife and little girl. For fifteen years I
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