| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: But it was quite a natural suggestion for a layman to make."
"But Monsieur Lawrence is not a layman. You told me yourself
that he had started by studying medicine, and that he had taken
his degree."
"Yes, that's true. I never thought of that." I was rather
startled. "It *IS odd."
Poirot nodded.
"From the first, his behaviour has been peculiar. Of all the
household, he alone would be likely to recognize the symptoms of
strychnine poisoning, and yet we find him the only member of the
family to uphold strenuously the theory of death from natural
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: called; and there was not a young gallant for ten miles round (not
to speak of her father's clerks and 'prentices, who moped about
after her like so many Malvolios, and treasured up the very parings
of her nails) who would not have gone to Jerusalem to win her. So
that all along the vales of Torridge and of Taw, and even away to
Clovelly (for young Mr. Cary was one of the sick), not a gay
bachelor but was frowning on his fellows, and vying with them in
the fashion of his clothes, the set of his ruffs, the harness of
his horse, the carriage of his hawks, the pattern of his sword-
hilt; and those were golden days for all tailors and armorers, from
Exmoor to Okehampton town. But of all those foolish young lads not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: here alone by the garrulous water, under the silence of the
high wood, broken by incongruous sounds of birds. And take
my life all through, look at it fore and back, and upside
down, - though I would very fain change myself - I would not
change my circumstances, unless it were to bring you here.
And yet God knows perhaps this intercourse of writing serves
as well; and I wonder, were you here indeed, would I commune
so continually with the thought of you. I say 'I wonder' for
a form; I know, and I know I should not.
So far, and much further, the conversation went, while I
groped in slime after viscous roots, nursing and sparing
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