| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: became vain or petty or jealous; that would have been
impossible. She only grew credulous and absorbed and blind. A
kind of gentle obstinacy, too, developed itself in her nature,
and all suggestion of defects in him fell off from her as from
a marble image of Faith. If he said or did anything, there was
no appeal; that was settled, let us pass to something else.
I almost blush to admit that Aunt Jane--of whom it could by no
means be asserted that she was a saintly lady, but only a very
charming one--rather rejoiced in this transformation.
"I like it better, my dear," she said, with her usual
frankness, to Kate. "Hope was altogether too heavenly for my
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot: of angularity little, if at all, under 55 degrees, ordered them
to be relieved before I began my defence, by an inferior class
of 2 or 3 degrees. I knew only too well what that meant.
I was to be executed or imprisoned, and my story was to be kept secret
from the world by the simultaneous destruction of the officials
who had heard it; and, this being the case, the President desired
to substitute the cheaper for the more expensive victims.
After I had concluded my defence, the President, perhaps perceiving
that some of the junior Circles had been moved by my
evident earnestness, asked me two questions: --
1. Whether I could indicate the direction which I meant
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: day of choosing a new captive to personate the god, and you have
been chosen because you are both noble and more beautiful than any
man in Anahuac, and also because being of the people of the Teules,
the children of Quetzal of whom so many rumours have reached us,
and whose coming my father Montezuma dreads more than anything in
the world, it was thought by the priests that you may avert their
anger from us, and the anger of the gods.'
Now Otomie paused as one who has something to say that she can
scarcely find words to fit, but I, remembering only what had been
said, swelled inwardly with the sense of my own greatness, and
because this lovely princess had declared that I was the most
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