| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Death of the Lion by Henry James: formidable rival?"
"Oh!" growled Dora Forbes. Then he added: "Shall I spoil it if I
go in?"
"I should think nothing could spoil it!" I ambiguously laughed.
Dora Forbes evidently felt the dilemma; he gave an irritated crook
to his moustache. "SHALL I go in?" he presently asked.
We looked at each other hard a moment; then I expressed something
bitter that was in me, expressed it in an infernal "Do!" After
this I got out into the air, but not so fast as not to hear, when
the door of the drawing-room opened, the disconcerted drop of Miss
Collop's public manner: she must have been in the midst of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Immortal among mortal men,
Sat hand in hand with love, and all day through
With your dear mother wondered over you.
OVER THE LAND IS APRIL
OVER the land is April,
Over my heart a rose;
Over the high, brown mountain
The sound of singing goes.
Say, love, do you hear me,
Hear my sonnets ring?
Over the high, brown mountain,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan
her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
NAH 3:8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the
rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea,
and her wall was from the sea?
NAH 3:9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put
and Lubim were thy helpers.
NAH 3:10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young
children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and
they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound
in chains.
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