| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: which moved slowly down toward the valley and as
they passed the cottage of Father Claude, Norman of
Torn saw that the door was closed and that there
was no sign of life about the place. A wave of melan-
choly passed over him, for the deserted aspect of the
little flower hedged cote seemed dismally prophetic
of a near future without the beaming, jovial face of his
friend and adviser.
Scarcely had the horde of Torn passed out of sight
down the east edge of the valley ere a party of richly
dressed knights, coming from the south by another
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: in all cases wherein a vigour beyond the law may be conducive
to our own interest and preservation."
"The articles of Equity are three:
"I. The balance of power among the people being very much deranged,
by one having too much and another nothing, we hereby resolve ourselves
into a congress or court of equity, to restore as far as in us lies
the said natural balance of power, by taking from all who have
too much as much of the said too much as we can lay our hands on;
and giving to those who have nothing such a portion thereof as it
may seem to us expedient to part with.
"II. In all cases a quorum of foresters shall constitute a court of equity,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: felt hat, adorned with an old red plume, in order to rub his hand over
his bald head. Again he looked at his daughter, who, beneath the brown
rafters of that leather-hung room, with its ebony furniture and
portieres of silken damask, and its tall chimney-piece, the whole so
softly lighted, was still his very own. The poor father felt the tears
in his eyes and hastened to wipe them. A father who loves his daughter
longs to keep her always a child; as for him who can without deep pain
see her fall under the dominion of another man, he does not rise to
worlds superior, he falls to lowest space.
"What ails you, my son?" said his old mother, taking off her
spectacles, and seeking the cause of his silence and of the change in
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