| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Odyssey by Homer: great good fortune, for it has prevented the poor fellow from
ever getting home at all."
Thus did he speak, and his words set them all a weeping. Helen
wept, Telemachus wept, and so did Menelaus, nor could
Pisistratus keep his eyes from filling, when he remembered his
dear brother Antilochus whom the son of bright Dawn had killed.
Thereon he said to Menelaus,
"Sir, my father Nestor, when we used to talk about you at home,
told me you were a person of rare and excellent understanding.
If, then, it be possible, do as I would urge you. I am not fond
of crying while I am getting my supper. Morning will come in due
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: like a deeper shadow in the blackness of a lane, through the broken
door of a deserted shed; presently a slim, neat little figure,
heavily veiled, emerged. Again the minutes passed. And now the
veiled figure let herself in through the back door of the Pug's
lodging house, and stole softly down the dark hall, and halted
before the Pug's door. It was the White Moll now.
From under the door, at the ill-fitting threshold, there showed a
thin line of light. Rhoda Gray, with her ear against the door panel,
listened. There was no sound of voices from within. Pinkie Bonn,
then, was still alone, and still waiting for the Pug. She glanced
sharply around her. There was only darkness. Her gloved right hand
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: a manner more befitting your age. I beg at least that Mr. Stewart
would come here; my business with him opens a very wide door."
"What does the man want with me?" cried Alan, when he had read. "What
he wants with you in clear enough - it's siller. But what can he want
with Alan Breck?"
"O, it'll be just an excuse," said I. "He is still after this
marriage, which I wish from my heart that we could bring about. And he
asks you because he thinks I would be less likely to come wanting you."
"Well, I wish that I kent," says Alan. "Him and me were never onyways
pack; we used to girn at ither like a pair of pipers. 'Something for
my ear,' quo' he! I'll maybe have something for his hinder-end, before
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