| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: this to your daughter--you will restore her to the arms of her
husband, from whom she has no longer anything to fear, and I will
guarantee that you will be a happy grandfather two years from
now."
Monsieur Loches at last showed that he was weakened in his
resolution.
"Doctor," he said, "I do not know that I can ever go so far as
forgiveness, but I promise you that I will do no irreparable act,
and that I will not oppose a reconciliation if after the lapse of
some time--I cannot venture to say how long--my poor child should
make up her mind to a reconciliation."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: the flask to her lips, and forced or aided her to swallow
some drops of the restorative, she opened her languid eyes
and smiled upon him faintly. Never was there a smile of a
more touching sweetness; never were eyes more deeply violet,
more honestly eloquent of the soul! I speak with knowledge,
for these were the same eyes that smiled upon me in the
cradle. From her who was to be his wife, my father, still
jealously watched and followed by the man with the grey
beard, carried his attentions to all the women of the party,
and gave the last drainings of his flask to those among the
men who seemed in the most need.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the police had become an accessory after the fact, since
she possessed knowledge of the identity of the actual
murderer; while the boy, by his own admission, had
committed a burglary.
Bridge shook his head wearily. Was he not himself
an accessory after the fact in the matter of two crimes
at least? These new friends, it seemed, were about to
topple him into the abyss which he had studiously
avoided for so long a time. But why should he permit
it? What were they to him?
A freight train was puffing into the siding at the Pay-
The Oakdale Affair |
