| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: They had met in Rome first, where Alison and her mother had taken
a villa for a year. Mrs. Curtis had hovered on the ragged edges of
society there, pleading the poverty of the south since the war as
a reason for not going out more. There was talk of a brother, but
Alison had not seen him, and after a scandal which implicated Mrs.
Curtis and a young attache of the Austrian embassy, Alison had
been forbidden to see the woman.
"The women had never liked her, anyhow," she said. "She did
unconventional things, and they are very conventional there. And
they said she did not always pay her - her gambling debts. I didn't
like them. I thought they didn't like her because she was poor
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: night before, safe in a nook of inland mountains, and had
awakened in a bay upon the coast. I had seen these
inundations from below; at Calistoga I had risen and gone
abroad in the early morning, coughing and sneezing, under
fathoms on fathoms of gray sea vapour, like a cloudy sky - a
dull sight for the artist, and a painful experience for the
invalid. But to sit aloft one's self in the pure air and
under the unclouded dome of heaven, and thus look down on the
submergence of the valley, was strangely different and even
delightful to the eyes. Far away were hilltops like little
islands. Nearer, a smoky surf beat about the foot of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: assure them from me of my docility; assure them that, however they
conceive of my deficiencies, they cannot suppose me more unfit to be
a ruler than I do myself. I am one of the worst princes in Europe;
will they improve on that?'
'Far be it from me . . .' the man began.
'See, now, if you will not defend my government!' cried Otto. 'If I
were you, I would leave conspiracies. You are as little fit to be a
conspirator as I to be a king.'
'One thing I will say out,' said the man. 'It is not so much you
that we complain of, it's your lady.'
'Not a word, sir' said the Prince; and then after a moment's pause,
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