| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: city. But dazzling and beautiful as were those who rode attendant
upon him, Abdallah the fagot-maker surpassed them all as the moon
dims the lustre of the stars. The people crowded around shouting
with wonder, and Abdallah, in the fulness of his delight, gave
orders to the slaves who bore the caskets of money to open them
and to throw the gold to the people. So, with those in the
streets scrambling and fighting for the money and shouting and
cheering, and others gazing down at the spectacle from the
windows and house-tops, the fagot-maker and his troop rode slowly
along through the town.
Now it chanced that their way led along past the royal palace,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: day for light, that I might see how to act betwixt my duty to
yonder unhappy man and that which I owe to you. Sternly and
fearfully that light has now dawned, and I must not shut the door
which God opens. Ask me no more. I will return in brief space."
So speaking, she wrapped herself in her mantle, and saying to the
old woman whom she passed in the outer room that she was going to
evening prayer, she left the house.
Meanwhile her father had reached once more the laboratory, where
he found the accomplices of his intended guilt. "Has the sweet
bird sipped?" said Varney, with half a smile; while the
astrologer put the same question with his eyes, but spoke not a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: barbarians, whose previous defeat they had attributed rather to
pestilence and a concurrence of mischances than to their own superior
valor. And, indeed, this fear had been formerly so great, that they
made a law, that priests should be excused from service in war, unless
in an invasion from the Gauls.
This was the last military action that ever Camillus performed; for the
voluntary surrender of the city of the Velitrani was but a mere
accessory to it. But the greatest of all civil contests, and the
hardest to be managed, was still to be fought out against the people;
who, returning home full of victory and success, insisted, contrary to
established law, to have one of the consuls chosen out of their own
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