| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: Lucy's impatience would induce her to condemn Ravenswood unheard
and in absence. In this she was disappointed. The time, indeed,
had long elapsed when an answer should have been received from
the continent. The faint ray of hope which still glimmered in
Lucy's mind was well nigh extinguished. But the idea never
forsook her that her letter might not have been duly forwarded.
One of her mother's new machinations unexpectedly furnished her
with the means of ascertaining what she most desired to know.
The female agent of hell having been dismissed from the castle,
Lady Ashton, who wrought by all variety of means,
resolved to employ, for working the same end on Lucy's mind, an
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: 'Fie, fie, fond love! thou art so full of fear
As one with treasure laden, hemm'd with thieves
Trifles, unwitnessed with eye or ear,
Thy coward heart with false bethinking grieves.' 1024
Even at this word she hears a merry horn
Whereat she leaps that was but late forlorn.
As falcon to the lure, away she flies;
The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light; 1028
And in her haste unfortunately spies
The foul boar's conquest on her fair delight;
Which seen, her eyes, as murder'd with the view,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: her only that I am going to prove myself an artist, AND TO LIVE FOR
WHAT I LOVE BEST. She understood, I am sure, for she would not lift
her eyes to me, but her hand trembled as she gave me the blue flower
from her belt."
The date of his return to Larmone was marked, but the page was
blank, as the day had been.
Some pages of dull self-reproach and questioning and bewildered
regret followed.
"Is it possible that she has gone away, without a word, without a
sign, after what has passed between us? It is not fair. Surely I
had some claim."
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