| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: "She came and waited for him last night, Doctor--from ten until half-past--
and this morning again. She came the third time about an hour ago,
and has been upstairs since."
"Do you know her, Mrs. Dolan?"
Mrs. Dolan grew embarrassed again.
"Well, Doctor," she said, wiping her eyes the while, "I DO.
And God knows he was a good lad, and I like a mother to him;
but she is not the girl I should have liked a son of mine
to take up with."
At any other time, this would have been amusing; now, it might be serious.
Mrs. Dolan's account of the wailing became suddenly significant, for perhaps
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: But it was not necessary for him to reach me, and well
he knew it, the scoundrel! With a malevolent expression
on his face, his beady eyes gleaming with cruel
intelligence, he began teetering. Teetering!--and with
me out on the very edge of the bough, clutching at the
twigs that broke continually with my weight. Twenty
feet beneath me was the earth.
Wildly and more--wildly he teetered, grinning at me his
gloating hatred. Then came the end. All four holds
broke at the same time, and I fell, back-downward,
looking up at him, my hands and feet still clutching
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: a calf lay skinned and prepared for cooking, and by it big gourds
filled with Kaffir beer and "maas" or curdled milk.
In due course we ate of these provisions, and after we had
finished I gave Goza a stiff tot of brandy, of which Nombe, or
perhaps Anscombe, had thoughtfully sent a bottle with my other
baggage. The strong liquor made the old fellow talkative and
enabled me to get a good deal of information out of him. Thus I
learned that certain demands, as to which he was rather vague,
had been made upon Cetewayo by the English Government, and that
the King was now considering whether he should accede to them or
fight. The Great Council of the nation was summoned to attend at
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