| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: She speaks almost
As if it were the Holy Ghost
Spake through her lips, and in her stead:
What if this were of God?
URSULA.
Ah, then
Gainsay it dare we not.
GOTTLIEB.
Amen!
Elsie! the words that thou hast said
Are strange and new for us to hear,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: capital hand at an omelette. I do not know in which capacity
he was most valued - as a cook or a companion; and he did
excellently well in both.
The Kong Sam Kee negotiation had delayed us unduly; it must
have been half-past nine before we left Calistoga, and night
came fully ere we struck the bottom of the grade. I have
never seen such a night. It seemed to throw calumny in the
teeth of all the painters that ever dabbled in starlight.
The sky itself was of a ruddy, powerful, nameless, changing
colour, dark and glossy like a serpent's back. The stars, by
innumerable millions, stuck boldly forth like lamps. The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Alkahest by Honore de Balzac: allows them to seize the lightest indications of thought and feeling.
Their whole being vibrates in communion with great moral convulsions.
Either they feel, or they see.
Now, although separated from her husband for over two years, Madame
Claes foresaw the loss of their property. She fully understood the
deliberate ardor, the well-considered, inalterable steadfastness of
Balthazar; if it were indeed true that he was seeking to make gold, he
was capable of throwing his last crust into the crucible with absolute
indifference. But what was he really seeking? Up to this time maternal
feeling and conjugal love had been so mingled in the heart of this
woman that the children, equally beloved by husband and wife, had
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