| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: "No; but the missus is," said Beaufort, nodding
carelessly to the young man.
"But I thought her so kind. She came herself to invite
me. Granny says I must certainly go."
"Granny would, of course. And I say it's a shame
you're going to miss the little oyster supper I'd planned
for you at Delmonico's next Sunday, with Campanini
and Scalchi and a lot of jolly people."
She looked doubtfully from the banker to Archer.
"Ah--that does tempt me! Except the other evening
at Mrs. Struthers's I've not met a single artist since I've
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: courtiers, went not abroad, to the vast delight of the town: and
rarely a night sped by unmarked by some magnificent
entertainment, to the great satisfaction of the court. At noon
it was a custom of the king and queen, surrounded by maids of
honour and gentlemen in waiting, the whole forming a gladsome and
gallant crowd, to ride in coaches or on horseback in Hyde Park:
which place has been described as "a field near the town, used by
the king and nobility for the freshness of the air, and goodly
prospect."
Here in a railed-off circle, known as the ring, and situated in
the northern half of the park, the whole world of fashion and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: eternal court is open to you, with its society, wide as the world,
multitudinous as its days, the chosen, and the mighty, of every
place and time? Into that you may enter always; in that you may
take fellowship and rank according to your wish; from that, once
entered into it, you can never be outcast but by your own fault; by
your aristocracy of companionship there, your own inherent
aristocracy will be assuredly tested, and the motives with which you
strive to take high place in the society of the living, measured, as
to all the truth and sincerity that are in them, by the place you
desire to take in this company of the Dead.
"The place you desire," and the place you FIT YOURSELF FOR, I must
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