| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Little Lucy shivered. "I never will."
"Well, my new cousin Content Adams -- tells lies."
Little Lucy gasped.
"Yes, she does. She says she has a big sister
Solly, and she hasn't got any big sister Solly. She
never did have, and she never will have. She makes
believe."
"Makes believe?" said little Lucy, in a hopeful
voice.
"Making believe is just a real mean way of lying.
Now I made Content promise last night never to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: and Lord Archibald Campbell have been in public controversy
on the facts. Two clans, the Camerons and the Campbells, lay
claim to this bracing story; and they do well: the man who
preferred his plighted troth to the commands and menaces of
the dead is an ancestor worth disputing. But the Campbells
must rest content: they have the broad lands and the broad
page of history; this appanage must be denied them; for
between the name of CAMERON and that of CAMPBELL, the muse
will never hesitate.
Note 1, Mr. Nutt reminds me it was "by my sword and Ben
Cruachan" the Cameron swore.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: seigneurs.
LE JEUNE SYRIEN. Ne voulez-vous pas vous asseoir, princesse?
LE PAGE D'HERODIAS. Pourquoi lui parler? Pourquoi la regarder? . .
. Oh! il va arriver un malheur.
SALOME. Que c'est bon de voir la lune! Elle ressemble e une petite
piece de monnaie. On dirait une toute petite fleur d'argent. Elle
est froide et chaste, la lune . . . Je suis sure qu'elle est vierge.
Elle a la beaute d'une vierge . . . Oui, elle est vierge. Elle ne
s'est jamais souillee. Elle ne s'est jamais donnee aux hommes,
comme les autres Deesses.
LA VOIX D'IOKANAAN. Il est venu, le Seigneur! Il est venu, le fils
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