| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: personage, with a quick stare at her, appeared for an instant to
wonder whether his snatching it in HIS turn mightn't be the thing
she would least like, and she anticipated this practical criticism
by the frankest glare she had ever given him. It sufficed: this
time it paralysed him; and she sought with her trophy the refuge of
the sounder.
CHAPTER XXI
It was repeated the next day; it went on for three days; and at the
end of that time she knew what to think. When, at the beginning,
she had emerged from her temporary shelter Captain Everard had
quitted the shop; and he had not come again that evening, as it had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vailima Prayers & Sabbath Morn by Robert Louis Stevenson: marked for sorrow, strong to endure it.
We thank Thee and praise Thee; and in the words of him to whom this
day is sacred, close our oblation.
FOR SELF-BLAME
LORD, enlighten us to see the beam that is in our own eye, and
blind us to the mote that is in our brother's. Let us feel our
offences with our hands, make them great and bright before us like
the sun, make us eat them and drink them for our diet. Blind us to
the offences of our beloved, cleanse them from our memories, take
them out of our mouths for ever. Let all here before Thee carry
and measure with the false balances of love, and be in their own
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: quoits and skittles. The general trend of the campaign was rarely
spoken of, partly because nothing certain was known about it, partly
because there was a vague feeling that in the main it was going badly.
Rostov lived, as before, with Denisov, and since their furlough they
had become more friendly than ever. Denisov never spoke of Rostov's
family, but by the tender friendship his commander showed him,
Rostov felt that the elder hussar's luckless love for Natasha played a
part in strengthening their friendship. Denisov evidently tried to
expose Rostov to danger as seldom as possible, and after an action
greeted his safe return with evident joy. On one of his foraging
expeditions, in a deserted and ruined village to which he had come
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