| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: "What about the mate," I asked anxiously.
"Still unconscious?"
"Well, sir--it's funny," Ransome was evidently
puzzled. "He hasn't spoken a word, and his eyes
are shut. But it looks to me more like sound sleep
than anything else."
I accepted this view as the least troublesome of
any, or at any rate, least disturbing. Dead faint
or deep slumber, Mr. Burns had to be left to him-
self for the present. Ransome remarked sud-
denly:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: "I don't think anything of the kind," his hard voice answered. "I
think you're a prince, if you want to know."
She smiled a little wanly, trying to coax him back into
friendliness. "Then if I'm a prince you must be a princess," she
teased.
"I meant a prince of good fellows" "Oh!" She could be stiff, too,
if it came to that.
And at this inopportune moment the key turned harshly and the
door swung open.
CHAPTER 12. A CLEAN WHITE MAN'S OPTION
The light of a lantern coming down the steps blinded them for a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: Hence it is clear that as the soul needs the word alone for life
and justification, so it is justified by faith alone, and not by
any works. For if it could be justified by any other means, it
would have no need of the word, nor consequently of faith.
But this faith cannot consist at all with works; that is, if you
imagine that you can be justified by those works, whatever they
are, along with it. For this would be to halt between two
opinions, to worship Baal, and to kiss the hand to him, which is
a very great iniquity, as Job says. Therefore, when you begin to
believe, you learn at the same time that all that is in you is
utterly guilty, sinful, and damnable, according to that saying,
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