| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: tulip bed, and a number of other things. The oddest part is,
Miss Innes, that the thumb-mark is probably yours and the
footprint certainly."
His audacity was the only thing that saved me: his amused smile
put me on my mettle, and I ripped out a perfectly good scallop
before I answered.
"Why did I step into the tulip bed?" I asked with interest.
"You picked up something," he said good-humoredly, "which you are
going to tell me about later."
"Am I, indeed?" I was politely curious. "With this remarkable
insight of yours, I wish you would tell me where I shall find my
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: world to whom the fears and hopes and joys of her life could be
naturally attached.
The late Comte de Dey was the last surviving scion of his family, and
she herself was the sole heiress of her own. Human interests and
projects combined, therefore, with the noblest deeds of the soul to
exalt in this mother's heart a sentiment that is always so strong in
the hearts of women. She had brought up this son with the utmost
difficulty, and with infinite pains, which rendered the youth still
dearer to her; a score of times the doctors had predicted his death,
but, confident in her own presentiments, her own unfailing hope, she
had the happiness of seeing him come safely through the perils of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: girl at the destination of the two riders and had been
disappointed when no sign of her materialized about the camp.
Baynes was restless, pacing back and forth beneath the trees
when he should have been resting against the forced marches of
the coming flight. Hanson lay in his hammock and smoked.
They spoke but little. Korak lay stretched upon a branch
among the dense foliage above them. Thus passed the balance
of the afternoon. Korak became hungry and thirsty. He doubted
that either of the men would leave camp now before morning, so he
withdrew, but toward the south, for there it seemed most likely
the girl still was.
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