| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: the chinks between the logs completed the furnishings. Sparse as were the
comforts, they appealed warmly to the girls, who, weary from their voyage, lay
down to rest.
"I am not fatigued," said Mr. Wells, to his old friend. "I want to hear all
about your work, what you have done, and what you hope to do."
"We have met with wonderful success, far beyond our wildest dreams," responded
Mr. Zeisberger. "Certainly we have been blessed of God."
Then the missionary began a long, detailed account of the Moravian Mission's
efforts among the western tribes. The work lay chiefly among the Delawares, a
noble nation of redmen, intelligent, and wonderfully susceptible to the
teaching of the gospel. Among the eastern Delawares, living on the other side
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: chimney, Hunca Munca had another
disappointment. She found some tiny
canisters upon the dresser, labelled--
Rice--Coffee--Sago--but when she
turned them upside down, there was
nothing inside except red and blue
beads.
Then those mice set to work to do
all the mischief they could--especially
Tom Thumb! He took Jane's clothes
out of the chest of drawers in her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: fellowship, what converse, what society would be agreeable without
confidence? What intercourse between man and wife be sweet apart from
trustfulness? How should the "faithful esquire" whose faith is
mistrusted still be lief and dear?[2]
[1] "How can he, whose faith's discredited, the moral bankrupt . . ."
[2] Or, "the trusty knight and serving-man." Cf. "Morte d'Arthur,"
xxi. 5, King Arthur and Sir Bedivere.
Well, then, of this frank confidence in others the tyrant has the
scantiest share.[3] Seeing his life is such, he cannot even trust his
meats and drinks, but he must bid his serving-men before the feast
begins, or ever the libation to the gods is poured,[4] to taste the
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