| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: forgotten it. On'y it ain't enough. It would all have to go into
buying furniture, and if he was took sick and lost his place again
we wouldn't have a cent left. He says he's got to lay by another
hundred dollars before he'll be willing to take me out there."
For a while Ann Eliza pondered this surprising statement; then
she ventured: "Seems to me he might have thought of it before."
In an instant Evelina was aflame. "I guess he knows what's
right as well as you or me. I'd sooner die than be a burden to
him."
Ann Eliza made no answer. The clutch of an unformulated doubt
had checked the words on her lips. She had meant, on the day of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: You mounted to the foot of the wall, and you encircled it,
finding it too high and steep to climb.
You sought a breech and you found none. Know this: none
enter the Great Eyrie; or if one enters, he never returns.
"Do not try again, for the second attempt will not result
as did the first, but will have grave consequences for you.
"Heed this warning, or evil fortune will come to you.
"M. o. W."
Chapter 7
A THIRD MACHINE
I confess that at first this letter dumfounded me. "Ohs!" and "Ahs!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: "And what does the king wish, Goza?"
"He wishes, Macumazahn, that you, his friend, should visit him."
"Which is just what I was on my way to do, Goza." (This was not
true, but it didn't matter, for, if a lie, in the words of the
schoolgirl's definition, is an abomination to the Lord, it is a
very present help in time of trouble.) "After we have eaten I
and my friends will accompany you to the king's kraal at Ulundi."
"Not so, Macumazahn. The king said nothing about your friends,
of whom I do not think he has ever heard any more than we have.
Moreover, if your friends are white, you will do well not to
mention them, since the order is that all white people in
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