| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: there two people concerned? And if two, did they work as
accomplices? Or is it possible that Knoll's story was true? Did
he really only rob the body, not realising that it was a dead man
and not merely an intoxicated sleeper as he had supposed? These
and many more thoughts rushed tumultuously through Muller's brain
until he sighed despairingly under the pressure. Then he smiled
in amusement at the wish that had crossed his brain, the wish that
this case might seem as simple to him as it apparently did to the
commissioner. It would certainly have saved him a lot of work and
trouble if he could believe the obvious as most people did. What
was this devil that rode him and spurred him on to delve into the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving: called him. He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of
witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and
sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of
Connecticut; and would frighten them woefully with speculations
upon comets and shooting stars; and with the alarming fact that
the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the
time topsy-turvy!
But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly
cuddling in the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a
ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no
spectre dared to show its face, it was dearly purchased by the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy: is required. . .not because the Communists may be doing it,
not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
it cannot save the few who are rich.
To our sister republics south of our border: we offer a special pledge. . .
to convert our good words into good deeds. . .in a new alliance for progress
. . .to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of
poverty. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of
hostile powers. Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them
to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. . .and let
every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master
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