| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Where There's A Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart: really does not matter."
"It matters to me. I had to do this to-night. I promised you I
would make good, and if I had let this pass--Don't you see, I
couldn't let it go."
"You can let me go, now."
"Not until I have justified myself to you."
"I am not interested."
I heard him take a step or two toward her.
"I don't quite believe that," he said in a low tone. "You were
interested in what I said here this afternoon."
"I didn't hear it."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: advertisement:
Shortly after five o'clock this morning, on East Thirty-ninth Street, a
laborer named Pete Lascalle, while on his way to work, was stabbed to the
heart by an unknown assailant, who escaped by running. The police have been
unable to discover any motive for the murder.
"Impossible!" was Mr. Hale's rejoinder, when I had read the item aloud; but
the incident evidently weighed upon his mind, for late in the afternoon, with
many epithets denunciatory of his foolishness, he asked me to acquaint the
police with the affair. I had the pleasure of being laughed at in the
Inspector's private office, although I went away with the assurance that they
would look into it and that the vicinity of Polk and Clermont would be doubly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: uphill,[47] it would seldom meet with such a fate; but now, through
its propensity to circle round and its attachment to the place where
it was born and bred, it courts destruction. Owing to its speed it is
not often overtaken by the hounds by fair hunting.[48] When caught, it
is the victim of a misfortune alien to its physical nature.
[46] {meta touton}, sc. "with these other causes"; al. "with the
dogs"; i.e. "like a second nightmare pack."
[47] Reading {orthion}, or if {orthon}, transl. "straight on."
[48] {kata podas}, i.e. "by running down"; cf. "Mem." II. vi. 9;
"Cyrop." I. vi. 40, re two kinds of hound: the one for scent, the
other for speed.
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