| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: and of how it may be peopled? I know," he went on hurriedly, "that
it is the fashion nowadays to laugh at such ideas. I envy those
who have never had cause to be convinced of their reality, and I
hope that you may long remain among the number. But should that
not be so, should those unseen influences ever touch your life, I
want you to remember then, that, as one of the race for whom Christ
died, you have as high a citizenship in that spirit land as any
creature there: that you are your own soul's warden, and that
neither principalities nor powers can rob you of that your
birthright."
I think my face must have shown my bewilderment, for he dropped my
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: is at least curious to find that two of the canons of Saint
Benoit answered respectively to the names of Pierre de Vaucel
and Etienne de Montigny, and that there was a householder
called Nicolas de Cayeux in a street - the Rue des Poirees -
in the immediate neighbourhood of the cloister. M. Longnon
is almost ready to identify Catherine as the niece of Pierre;
Regnier as the nephew of Etienne, and Colin as the son of
Nicolas. Without going so far, it must be owned that the
approximation of names is significant. As we go on to see
the part played by each of these persons in the sordid
melodrama of the poet's life, we shall come to regard it as
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: growing restless or irritable. He heard his master call him,
but did not answer because he did not want to move or talk.
Though he still felt some warmth from the tea he had drunk and
from his energetic struggle when clambering about in the
snowdrift, he knew that this warmth would not last long and
that he had no strength left to warm himself again by moving
about, for he felt as tired as a horse when it stops and
refuses to go further in spite of the whip, and its master sees
that it must be fed before it can work again. The foot in the
boot with a hole in it had already grown numb, and he could no
longer feel his big toe. Besides that, his whole body began to
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