| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: signalling to Ann Eliza to buy.
An hour went by before the door of the back room opened and
the priest reappeared with that mysterious covered something in his
hands. Ann Eliza had risen, drawing back as he passed. He had
doubtless divined her antipathy, for he had hitherto only bowed in
going in and out; but to day he paused and looked at her
compassionately.
"I have left your sister in a very beautiful state of mind,"
he said in a low voice like a woman's. "She is full of spiritual
consolation."
Ann Eliza was silent, and he bowed and went out. She hastened
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: fellow, and the land be bathed with blood as rain--shall I then dare to
pray, who have now feared to speak? Do not think I wish for punishment
upon these men. Let them take the millions they have wrung out of this
land, and go to the lands of their birth, and live in wealth, luxury, and
joy; but let them leave this land they have tortured and ruined. Let them
keep the money they have made here; we may be the poorer for it; but they
cannot then crush our freedom with it. Shall I ask my God Sunday by Sunday
to brood across the land, and bind all its children's hearts in a close-
knit fellowship;--yet, when I see its people betrayed, and their jawbone
broken by a stroke from the hand of gold; when I see freedom passing from
us, and the whole land being grasped by the golden claw, so that the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: on investigating the case.
As possible causative factors of the unmitigated lying we found
(a) defective heredity leading to (b) typical constitutional
inferiority with the peculiar states of mind characteristic of
the latter, (c) poor developmental conditions through early
illnesses; (d) excessive bad sex practices on the part of the boy
himself. Vindictive reaction to charges of delinquency against
himself might be considered a factor if his false accusations had
not been made without any such stimulus a long time previously.
(According to another classification this case belongs in our
chapter on Border-line Types. It is retained here because it so
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