| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: on horseback with his daughter, while in the gig his wife was
driving with a Frenchman, evidently a traveller.
The party stopped to let the Frenchman see the pilgrims who, in
accord with a popular Russian superstition, tramped about from
place to place instead of working.
They spoke French, thinking that the others would not understand
them.
'Demandez-leur,' said the Frenchman, 's'ils sont bien sur de ce
que leur pelerinage est agreable a Dieu.'
The question was asked, and one old woman replied:
'As God takes it. Our feet have reached the holy places, but our
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: satisfaction, she now walked home again, with a change rather
than a diminution of cares since her treading that path before
CHAPTER XXVII
On reaching home Fanny went immediately upstairs to
deposit this unexpected acquisition, this doubtful good
of a necklace, in some favourite box in the East room,
which held all her smaller treasures; but on opening
the door, what was her surprise to find her cousin Edmund
there writing at the table! Such a sight having never
occurred before, was almost as wonderful as it was welcome.
"Fanny," said he directly, leaving his seat and his pen,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: As it was doomed to be.
NOTES TO TICONDEROGA
INTRODUCTION. - I first heard this legend of my own country
from that friend of men of letters, Mr. Alfred Nutt, "there
in roaring London's central stream," and since the ballad
first saw the light of day in SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE, Mr. Nutt
and Lord Archibald Campbell have been in public controversy
on the facts. Two clans, the Camerons and the Campbells, lay
claim to this bracing story; and they do well: the man who
preferred his plighted troth to the commands and menaces of
the dead is an ancestor worth disputing. But the Campbells
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