| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: become one himself; it delighted him to receive dukes and
marquises at the Rue Beaubourg, even if they came there with the
avowed object of raising the wind. The smiling grocer, in his
everlasting bonnet and flowered dressing-gown a la J. J.
Rousseau, was ever ready to oblige the needy scion of a noble
house. What he borrowed at moderate interest from his creditors
he lent at enhanced interest to the quality. Duns and bailiffs
jostled the dukes and marquises whose presence at the Rue
Beaubourg so impressed the wondering neighbours of the facile
grocer.
This aristocratic money-lending proved a hopeless trade; it only
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: "A shock, and after brain fever so soon! That is not good.
What kind of shock was it?"
"He thought he saw some one who recalled something terrible,
something which led to his brain fever." And here the whole thing
seemed to overwhelm me in a rush. The pity for Jonathan, the horror
which he experienced, the whole fearful mystery of his diary, and the fear
that has been brooding over me ever since, all came in a tumult.
I suppose I was hysterical, for I threw myself on my knees and held
up my hands to him, and implored him to make my husband well again.
He took my hands and raised me up, and made me sit on the sofa,
and sat by me. He held my hand in his, and said to me with, oh,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: To render again and receive!
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I KNOW not how it is with you -
I love the first and last,
The whole field of the present view,
The whole flow of the past.
One tittle of the things that are,
Nor you should change nor I -
One pebble in our path - one star
In all our heaven of sky.
Our lives, and every day and hour,
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