| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: declaration of liberality, he surprised himself by conceding her
demand for Newnham even before she had repeated it. It helped his
case wonderfully.
"Call in every exterior witness you can. The church will
welcome them.... No, I want you to go, my dear...."
But his mind was stirred again to its depths by this
discussion. And in particular he was surprised and a little
puzzled by this Newnham concession and the necessity of making
his new attitude clear to Lady Ella....
It was with a sense of fatality that he found himself awake
again that night, like some one lying drowned and still and yet
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: "I thought it was a priest's duty to console us, and you are killing
me!"
At this innocent outcry the priest started and paused; he meditated a
moment before replying. During that instant the two persons so
strangely brought together studied each other cautiously. The priest
understood the girl, though the girl could not understand the priest.
He, no doubt, put aside some plan which had threatened the unhappy
Esther, and came back to his first ideas.
"We are physicians of the soul," said he, in a mild voice, "and we
know what remedies suit their maladies."
"Much must be forgiven to the wretched," said Esther.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Long Odds by H. Rider Haggard: trigger, when suddenly I went blind--a bit of reed-ash had drifted into
my right eye. I danced and rubbed, and succeeded in clearing it more or
less just in time to see the tail of the last lion vanishing round the
bushes up the kloof.
"If ever a man was mad I was that man. It was too bad; and such a shot
in the open! However, I was not going to be beaten, so I just turned
and marched for the kloof. Tom, the driver, begged and implored me not
to go, but though as a general rule I never pretend to be very brave
(which I am not), I was determined that I would either kill those lions
or they should kill me. So I told Tom that he need not come unless he
liked, but I was going; and being a plucky fellow, a Swazi by birth, he
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