| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: "Do you feel better now?" asked the young commissioner in sincere
sympathy that was mingled with admiration for the delicate beauty
of the girl beside him, an admiration heightened by her romantic
story and marvelous escape.
Asta nodded and answered gently: "I feel as if some terrible weight
were lifted from my heart and brain. But I doubt if I will ever
forget these horrible days, when I had already come to accept it as
a fact that - that I was to be murdered."
"This is the man to whom you owe your escape," said the commissioner,
laying his hand on Muller's knee. Asta did not speak, but she
reached out in the darkness of the cab, caught Muller's hand and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: I was moving off towards the house again when he suddenly called
me back.
"I say, what was the end of that message? Say it over again, will
you?"
" 'Find the extra coffee-cup, and you can rest in peace.' Are you
sure you don't know what it means?" I asked him earnestly.
He shook his head.
"No," he said musingly, "I don't. I--I wish I did."
The boom of the gong sounded from the house, and we went in
together. Poirot had been asked by John to remain to lunch, and
was already seated at the table.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: relieved by a remedy which the famous doctor, Tronchin, had once
recommended to her,--namely, to apply the skin of a freshly-flayed
hare on the pit of the stomach, and to remain in bed without making
the slightest movement for two days. This tale had prodigious success,
and the doctor of Carentan, a royalist "in petto," increased its
effect by the manner in which he discussed the remedy.
Nevertheless, suspicions had taken too strong a root in the minds of
some obstinate persons, and a few philosophers, to be thus dispelled;
so that all Madame de Dey's usual visitors came eagerly and early that
evening to watch her countenance: some out of true friendship, but
most of them to detect the secret of her seclusion.
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