| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: standard! with their looks abashed; meanness shall cover them! That is
the day which they were promised!
THE CHAPTER OF NOAH
(LXXI. Mecca.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
Verily, we sent Noah to his people, 'Warn thy people before there
come to them a grievous torment!'
Said he, 'O my people! verily, I am to you an obvious warner, that
ye serve God and fear Him and obey me. He will pardon you your sins,
and will defer you unto an appointed time; verily, God's appointed
time when it comes will not be deferred, did ye but know!'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: "I've had a little trouble myself," declared Jimmy hotly, now
resolved to make a clean breast of it.
"I'm not asking about your troubles," interrupted the officer
savagely, and Jimmy felt the huge creature's obnoxious fingers
tightening again on his collar. "Go ahead, sir," said the
officer to Alfred.
"Well," began Alfred, nodding toward the now livid Jimmy, "he was
out with my boy when I arrived. I stopped him from going out
with him a second time, and now you, officer, catch him slipping
down the fire-escape. I don't know what to say," he finished
weakly.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: to their mother's melancholy. Day by day her face was growing pale and
wan, there were hollows now in her temples, the lines in her forehead
grew deeper night after night.
August came. The little family had been five months at La Grenadiere,
and their whole life was changed. The old servant grew anxious and
gloomy as she watched the almost imperceptible symptoms of slow
decline in the mistress, who seemed to be kept in life by an
impassioned soul and intense love of her children. Old Annette seemed
to see that death was very near. That mistress, beautiful still, was
more careful of her appearance than she had ever been; she was at
pains to adorn her wasted self, and wore paint on her cheeks; but
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