| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: away.
"Davidson, kneeling by the side of that woman done so miserably to
death, was overcome by remorse. She had died for him. His manhood
was as if stunned. For the first time he felt afraid. He might
have been pounced upon in the dark at any moment by the murderer of
Laughing Anne. He confesses to the impulse of creeping away from
that pitiful corpse on his hands and knees to the refuge of the
ship. He even says that he actually began to do so. . .
"One can hardly picture to oneself Davidson crawling away on all
fours from the murdered woman - Davidson unmanned and crushed by
the idea that she had died for him in a sense. But he could not
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: the stairs and see what I then scornfully termed "His Nibs." Never
again shall I so call him.
I got an evening gown from Sis's closet, and it fitted me quite
well, although tight at the waste for me, owing to Basket Ball. It
was also to low, so that when I had got it all hooked about four
inches of my LINGERIE showed. As it had been hard as anything to
hook, I was obliged to take the scizzors and cut off the said
LINGERIE. The result was good, although very DECOLLTE. I have no
bones in my neck, or practicaly so.
And now came my moment of temptation. How easy to put my hair up on
my head, and then, by the servant's staircase, make my way to the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: here have I been run down by that self-same water-cart, and my leg
is broken."
"Dear me!" said the physician. "This is very sad. But I perceive
I must explain to you the action of my paint. A broken bone is a
mighty small affair at the worst of it; and it belongs to a class
of accident to which my paint is quite inapplicable. Sin, my dear
young friend, sin is the sole calamity that a wise man should
apprehend; it is against sin that I have fitted you out; and when
you come to be tempted, you will give me news of my paint."
"Oh!" said the young man, "I did not understand that, and it seems
rather disappointing. But I have no doubt all is for the best; and
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