| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: play here," she said.
As she spoke there was a great tramping of steps outside and a
burst of voices on the threshold.
"It is all a lie," she gasped out, "about my marriage, and the
Marquess, and the Ambassador, and the Senator--but not, oh, not
about your danger in this place--or about my love," she breathed
to him. And as the key rattled in the door she laid her lips on
his brow.
The key rattled, and the door swung open--but the black-cassocked
gentleman who stepped in, though a priest indeed, was no votary
of idolatrous rites, but that sound orthodox divine, the Reverend
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: enclosure, where stood a huge block, on which lay an axe. Both
were smeared with recent blood, and a quantity of saw-dust
strewed around, partly retained and partly obliterated the marks
of a very late execution.
As Dalgetty looked on this new object of terror, his principal
guide suddenly twitched him by the skirt of his jerkin, and
having thus attracted his attention, winked and pointed with his
finger to a pole fixed on the stockade, which supported a human
head, being that, doubtless, of the late sufferer. There was a
leer on the Highlander's face, as he pointed to this ghastly
spectacle, which seemed to his fellow-traveller ominous of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: widely opened, and the door of communication between the two
apartments left ajar. To this interval I now applied my eye.
Wax tapers, set in silver candlesticks, shed their chastened
brightness on the damask of the tablecloth and the remains of
a cold collation of the rarest delicacy. The two gentlemen
had finished supper, and were now trifling with cigars and
maraschino; while in a silver spirit lamp, coffee of the most
captivating fragrance was preparing in the fashion of the
East. The elder of the two, he who had first arrived, was
placed directly facing me; the other was set on his left
hand. Both, like the man in the butler's pantry, seemed to
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