| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: lies. Tell them then these tales- haply they may reflect.
Evil is the likeness of a people who say our signs are lies;
themselves it is they wrong!
We have created for hell many of the ginn and of mankind; they
have hearts and they discern not therewith; they have eyes and they
see not therewith; they have ears and they hear not therewith; they
are like cattle, nay, they go more astray! these it is who care not.
But God's are the good names; call on Him then thereby, and leave
those who pervert His names; they shall be rewarded for that which
they have done.
And of those whom we have created is a nation who are guided in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: it does not begin with eagle in English, but something very like
it in Scotch."
"You cannot mean young Earnscliff, Lucy?" said Miss Vere,
blushing deeply.
"And whom else should I mean" said Lucy. "Jaffiers and Pierres
are very scarce in this country, I take it, though one could find
Renaults and Bedamars enow."
"How call you talk so wildly, Lucy? Your plays and romances have
positively turned your brain. You know, that, independent of my
father's consent, without which I never will marry any one, and
which, in the case you point at, would never be granted;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett: which I had once admired; there was an affecting provision laid
beside it for my seafaring supper, with a neatly tied bunch of
southernwood and a twig of bay, and a little old leather box which
held the coral pin that Nathan Todd brought home to give to poor
Joanna.
There was still an hour to wait, and I went up the hill just
above the schoolhouse and sat there thinking of things, and looking
off to sea, and watching for the boat to come in sight. I could
see Green Island, small and darkly wooded at that distance; below
me were the houses of the village with their apple-trees and bits
of garden ground. Presently, as I looked at the pastures beyond,
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