| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: With harmless ardour opes and shuts,
Reader, may your immortal mind
To their sage lessons not be blind.
Poem: II
Reader, your soul upraise to see,
In yon fair cut designed by me,
The pauper by the highwayside
Vainly soliciting from pride.
Mark how the Beau with easy air
Contemns the anxious rustic's prayer,
And, casting a disdainful eye,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: her from childhood, for she followed it swiftly and unerringly,
barefoot as she was. I had to walk fast through the darkness to
keep up with her. The wood was quiet, but the frogs were
beginning to croak in the pool, and their persistent chorus
reminded me of the night when I had come to the house-door, hurt
and worn out, and Clon had admitted me, and she had stood under
the gallery in the hall. Things had looked dark then. I had
seen but a very little way ahead then. Now all was plain. The
commandant might be here with all his soldiers, but it was I who
held the strings.
We came to the little wooden bridge and saw beyond the dark
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: Ann Eliza's first glance at his plain friendly face showed her
he had news to give, but though she no longer attempted to hide her
anxiety from Miss Mellins, her lips trembled too much to let her
speak.
"Good evening, Miss Bunner," said Mr. Hawkins in his dragging
voice. "I've been over to Hoboken all day looking round for Mrs.
Hochmuller."
"Oh, Mr. Hawkins--you HAVE?"
"I made a thorough search, but I'm sorry to say it was no use.
She's left Hoboken--moved clear away, and nobody seems to know
where."
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