| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: him somewhere."
"Yes, there was a great lack in him somewhere."
They were silent for a time. She broke it to ask about York Neil.
"You wouldn't send him to prison after doing what he did, would
you?"
"Meaning what?"
"You say yourself he helped you against the other outlaws. Then
he showed you where to start in finding the buried money. He
isn't a bad man. You know how he stood by me when I was a
prisoner," she pleaded.
He nodded. "That goes a long way with me, Miss Mackenzie. The
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac: painfully struck by seeing the Colonel of Artillery, whom he knew to
be a prudent man, playing at a game which might bring him to ruin. The
heaps of gold and notes piled on the fateful cards showed the frenzy
of play. A circle of silent men stood round the players at the table.
Now and then a few words were spoken--PASS, PLAY, I STOP, A THOUSAND
LOUIS, TAKEN--but, looking at the five motionless men, it seemed as
though they talked only with their eyes. As the Colonel, alarmed by
Soulanges' pallor, went up to him, the Count was winning. Field-
Marshal the Duc d'Isemberg, Keller, and a famous banker rose from the
table completely cleaned out of considerable sums. Soulanges looked
gloomier than ever as he swept up a quantity of gold and notes; he did
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: magic of place do not operate too long upon him, his forfeited
powers may be redeemable. The ejected officer -- fortunate in
the unkindly shove that sends him forth betimes, to struggle amid
a struggling world -- may return to himself, and become all that
he has ever been. But this seldom happens. He usually keeps his
ground just long enough for his own ruin, and is then thrust out,
with sinews all unstrung, to totter along the difficult footpath
of life as he best may. Conscious of his own infirmity -- that
his tempered steel and elasticity are lost -- he for ever
afterwards looks wistfully about him in quest of support external
to himself. His pervading and continual hope -- a hallucination,
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