| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: Damiotti made use of charms and unlawful arts in order to obtain
success in his practice. The resorting to him was even solemnly
preached against, as a seeking of health from idols, and a
trusting to the help which was to come from Egypt. But the
protection which the Paduan Doctor received from some friends of
interest and consequence enabled him to set these imputations at
defiance, and to assume, even in the city of Edinburgh, famed as
it was for abhorrence of witches and necromancers, the dangerous
character of an expounder of futurity. It was at length rumoured
that, for a certain gratification, which of course was not an
inconsiderable one, Doctor Baptista Damiotti could tell the fate
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: Towards four o'clock in the morning the rooms began to empty. A
little later the music ceased, and the Duchesse de Langeais and
Rastignac were left in the great ballroom. The Vicomtesse, who
thought to find the student there alone, came back there at last.
She had taken leave of M. de Beauseant, who had gone off to bed,
saying again as he went, "It is a great pity, my dear, to shut
yourself up at your age! Pray stay among us."
Mme. de Beauseant saw the Duchesse, and, in spite of herself, an
exclamation broke from her.
"I saw how it was, Clara," said Mme. de Langeais. "You are going
from among us, and you will never come back. But you must not go
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: roused the enmity of my people and become an outcast. Besides I
owe him eternal gratitude for saving the life of little Fay."
"I've heard of your love for Fay Larkin and that you intend to
adopt her. But--Jane Withersteen, the child is a Gentile!"
"Yes. But, Elder, I don't love the Mormon children any less
because I love a Gentile child. I shall adopt Fay if her mother
will give her to me."
"I'm not so much against that. You can give the child Mormon
teaching," said Tull. "But I'm sick of seeing this fellow Venters
hang around you. I'm going to put a stop to it. You've so much
love to throw away on these beggars of Gentiles that I've an idea
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