| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: no doubt; and when he turned inland and sped across the snow-
covered tundra he was not startled because the shadow took upon it
greater definiteness and drew in closer. Oppressed with his own
impotence, he halted in the midst of the white waste and whirled
about. His right hand slipped from its mitten, and a revolver, at
level, glistened in the pale light of the stars.
"Don't shoot. I haven't a gun."
The shadow had assumed tangible shape, and at the sound of its
human voice a trepidation affected Fortune La Pearle's knees, and
his stomach was stricken with the qualms of sudden relief.
Perhaps things fell out differently because Uri Bram had no gun
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: understand the harrowing anxiety you have given Mrs. Milton by
this inexplicable flight of yours. We can only put things down at
present, in charity, to your ignorance--"
"You have to consider the general body of opinion, too," said
Widgery.
"Precisely," said Miss Mergle. "There is no such thing as conduct
in the absolute." "If once this most unfortunate business gets
about," said the clergyman, "it will do you infinite harm."
"But I'VE done nothing wrong. Why should I be responsible for
other people's--"
"The world has no charity," said Mrs. Milton.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: Then, full of a vague sense of calamity, he sought the porter at
the entrance lodge. "Where is Mr. Bessel?" he asked. "Do you know
that all the furniture is broken in Mr. Bessel's room?" The porter
said nothing, but, obeying his gestures, came at once to Mr. Bessel's
apartment to see the state of affairs. "This settles it," he said,
surveying the lunatic confusion. "I didn't know of this. Mr. Bessel's
gone off. He's mad!"
He then proceeded to tell Mr. Vincey that about half an hour
previously, that is to say, at about the time of Mr. Bessel's
apparition in Mr. Vincey's rooms, the missing gentleman had rushed
out of the gates of the Albany into Vigo Street, hatless and with
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