| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: goodwill by which the poor, who know by long experience the value of a
service and the warmth that fellowship brings, give expression to the
open-heartedness and the natural impulses of their souls; so artlessly
do they reveal their good qualities and their defects. The stranger
thanked her by a gesture full of gracious dignity, and took his place
between the young mother and the old soldier. Immediately behind him
sat a peasant and his son, a boy ten years of age. A beggar woman,
old, wrinkled, and clad in rags, was crouching, with her almost empty
wallet, on a great coil of rope that lay in the prow. One of the
rowers, an old sailor, who had known her in the days of her beauty and
prosperity, had let her come in "for the love of God," in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Britain by Washington Irving: the throne; a royal duke had died suddenly,--another, in
France, had been murdered; there had been radical meetings in
all parts of the kingdom; the bloody scenes at Manchester; the
great plot of Cato Street; and above all, the queen had returned
to England! All these sinister events are recounted by Mr.
Skryme, with a mysterious look, and a dismal shake of the
head; and being taken with his drugs, and associated in the
minds of his auditors with stuffed sea-monsters, bottled
serpents, and his own visage, which is a title-page of
tribulation, they have spread great gloom through the minds of
the people of Little Britain. They shake their heads whenever
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: also asked her to marry me, but something makes me speak what I
believe to be the truth."
"Like Cassandra," I suggested.
"Yes, like Cassandra who was not a popular person." At first I
was inclined to resent Bickley's words--who would not have been
in the circumstances? Then of a sudden there rushed in upon my
mind the conviction that he spoke the truth. In this world Yva
was not for me or any man. Moreover she knew it, the knowledge
peeped out of every word she spoke in our passionate love scene
by the lake. She was aware, and subconsciously I was aware, that
we were plighting our troth, not for time but for eternity. With
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