| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: and deny that you knew her?
TARLETON. _[trying to recollect]_ What did you say her name was?
THE MAN. Lucinda Titmus.
TARLETON. Well, I ought to remember a rum name like that if I ever
heard it. But I dont. Have you a photograph or anything?
THE MAN. Forgotten even the name of your victim!
TARLETON. Oh! she was my victim, was she?
THE MAN. She was. And you shall see her face again before you die,
dead as she is. I have a photograph.
TARLETON. Good.
THE MAN. Ive two photographs.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: one of the godly women writes to Janet:
`My dearest beloved madam, when I last parted from you,
you was so affected with your affliction [you? or I?] could
think of nothing else. But on Saturday, when I went to
inquire after your health, how was I startled to hear that
dear James was gone! Ah, what is this? My dear benefactors,
doing so much good to many, to the Lord, suddenly to be
deprived of their most valued comforts! I was thrown into
great perplexity, could do nothing but murmur, why these
things were done to such a family. I could not rest, but at
midnight, whether spoken [or not] it was presented to my mind
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Summer by Edith Wharton: and blow the money in; and this man ended up with
manslaughter. I got him convicted, though they were
scared of the Mountain even at Nettleton; and then a
queer thing happened. The fellow sent for me to go and
see him in gaol. I went, and this is what he says:
'The fool that defended me is a chicken-livered son of
a--and all the rest of it,' he says. 'I've got a job
to be done for me up on the Mountain, and you're the
only man I seen in court that looks as if he'd do it.'
He told me he had a child up there--or thought he had--
a little girl; and he wanted her brought down and
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