| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: but that I was inwardly moved to it for the sake of that young
gentleman there" (looking at Amyas), "that he might be warned in
time of God's wrath against the crying sin of adultery, and flee
youthful lusts, which war against the soul."
"Thou hast done wisely enough, then," said Sir Richard; "and look
to it if I do not reward thee: but the young gentleman here, thank
God, needs no such warnings, having got them already both by
precept and example, where thou and poor Oxenham might have had
them also."
"You mean Captain Drake, your worship?"
"I do, sirrah. If all men were as clean livers as he, the world
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "It is impossible to kill anyone in the Land of Oz," declared Kiki.
"It isn't necessary to kill the Oz people," rejoined Ruggedo.
"I'm afraid I don't understand you," objected the boy. "What will
happen to the Oz people, and what sort of an army could we get
together, except of people?"
"I'll tell you. The forests of Oz are full of beasts. Some of
them, in the far-away places, are savage and cruel, and would gladly
follow a leader as savage as themselves. They have never troubled the
Oz people much, because they had no leader to urge them on, but we
will tell them to help us conquer Oz and as a reward we will transform
all the beasts into men and women, and let them live in the houses and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: was this softer, gentler man who had awakened to new thoughts in
the quiet valley. Tenderness, masterful in him now, matched the
absence of joy and blunted the knife-edge of entering jealousy.
Strong and passionate effort of will, surprising to him, held
back the poison from piercing his soul.
"Wait!...Wait!" he cried, as if calling. His hand pressed his
breast, and he might have called to the pang there. "Wait! It's
all so strange--so wonderful. Anything can happen. Who am I to
judge her? I'll glory in my love for her. But I can't tell
it--can't give up to it."
Certainly he could not then decide her future. Marrying her was
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