| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: commencing, "Dog and villain!" and applied it to the words "Jean"
or "Johann Helm," the few lines which could be deciphered became
full of meaning. "Don't think," it began, "that I have forgotten
you, or the trick you played me! If I was drunk or drugged the
last night, I know how it happened, for all that. I left, but I
shall go back. And if you make use of "(here some words were
entirely obliterated) . . . . "is true. He gave me the ring, and
meant" . . . . This was all I could make out. The other papers
showed only scattered memoranda, of money, or appointments, or
addresses, with the exception of the diary in pencil.
I read the letter attentively, and at first with very little idea
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: roode she could haue runne, & wadled all about: for euen
the day before she broke her brow, & then my Husband
God be with his soule, a was a merrie man, tooke vp the
Child, yea quoth hee, doest thou fall vpon thy face? thou
wilt fall backeward when thou hast more wit, wilt thou
not Iule? And by my holy-dam, the pretty wretch lefte
crying, & said I: to see now how a Iest shall come about.
I warrant, & I shall liue a thousand yeares, I neuer should
forget it: wilt thou not Iule quoth he? and pretty foole it
stinted, and said I
Old La. Inough of this, I pray thee hold thy peace
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: He was not exactly a showy figure; his shoulders were high,
his stature but middling--one leg slightly more bandy
than the other. He shook hands, looking vaguely around.
A spiritless tenacity was his main characteristic, I judged.
I behaved with a politeness which seemed to disconcert him.
Perhaps he was shy. He mumbled to me as if he were ashamed of
what he was saying; gave his name (it was something like Archbold--
but at this distance of years I hardly am sure), his ship's name,
and a few other particulars of that sort, in the manner
of a criminal making a reluctant and doleful confession.
He had had terrible weather on the passage out--terrible--terrible--
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