| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: "Exactly," said Smith, looking at him keenly; "someone who was
here yesterday. Have you any idea whom it could have been?"
West hesitated. "I had a visitor in the afternoon," he said,
seemingly speaking the words unwillingly, "but--"
"A lady?" jerked Smith. "I suggest that it was a lady."
West nodded.
"You're quite right," he admitted. "I don't know how you arrived
at the conclusion, but a lady whose acquaintance I made recently--
a foreign lady."
"Karamaneh!" snapped Smith.
"I don't know what you mean in the least, but she came here--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: It must be the ghost.' He accordingly rubbed out the stain a
second time, but the second morning it appeared again. The third
morning also it was there, though the library had been locked up at
night by Mr. Otis himself, and the key carried upstairs. The whole
family were now quite interested; Mr. Otis began to suspect that he
had been too dogmatic in his denial of the existence of ghosts,
Mrs. Otis expressed her intention of joining the Psychical Society,
and Washington prepared a long letter to Messrs. Myers and Podmore
on the subject of the Permanence of Sanguineous Stains when
connected with Crime. That night all doubts about the objective
existence of phantasmata were removed for ever.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: "Now we shall have some fun," said Goupil, shaking him by the hand.
"Ha! my old wag, so here you are!" replied Desire.
"You take your law license for all license," said Goupil, affronted by
being treated so cavalierly in presence of others.
"You know my luggage," cried Desire to the red-faced old conductor of
the diligence; "have it taken to the house."
"The sweat is rolling off your horses," said Zelie sharply to the
conductor; "you haven't common-sense to drive them in that way. You
are stupider than your own beasts."
"But Monsieur Desire was in a hurry to get here to save you from
anxiety," explained Cabirolle.
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