| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: resurrection."
"Ah! master Lancepesade, how happy those fair ladies are, to be so
near to a bishop, a holy man! They will get absolution for their
sins," said the old woman. "Oh! if I could only hear a priest say to
me, 'Thy sins are forgiven!' I should believe it then."
The stranger turned towards her, and the goodness in his face made her
tremble.
"Have faith," he said, "and you will be saved."
"May God reward you, good sir," she answered. "If what you say is
true, I will go on pilgrimage barefooted to Our Lady of Loretto to
pray to her for you and for me."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: does seem a great pity. I feel sorry for both of you. Clarke never will
forgive you, even if you want him to, which I am sure you do not. I don't know
exactly what is in this letter, but I know it will make you ashamed to think
you did not trust him."
With this parting reproof the Colonel walked out, leaving Betty completely
bewildered. The words "too late," "never forgive," and "a great pity" rang
through her head. What did he mean? She tore the letter open with trembling
hands and holding it up to the now fast-waning light, she read
"Dear Betty:
"If you had waited only a moment longer I know you would not have been so
angry with me. The words I wanted so much to say choked me and I could not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: familiar the family, the worse for everybody concerned. The family
ideal is a humbug and a nuisance: one might as reasonably talk of the
barrack ideal, or the forecastle ideal, or any other substitution of
the machinery of social organization for the end of it, which must
always be the fullest and most capable life: in short, the most godly
life. And this significant word reminds us that though the popular
conception of heaven includes a Holy Family, it does not attach to
that family the notion of a separate home, or a private nursery or
kitchen or mother-in-law, or anything that constitutes the family as
we know it. Even blood relationship is miraculously abstracted from
it; and the Father is the father of all children, the mother the
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