| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: said before, that the money, though the sum was small in itself,
was doubly welcome to him; he owned it was more than he
looked for, and that he did not question by my discourse to
him, but that my fine clothes, gold watch, and a diamond ring
or two, had been all my fortune.
I let him please himself with that #160 two or three days, and
then, having been abroad that day, and as if I had been to fetch
it, I brought him #100 more home in gold, and told him there
was a little more portion for him; and, in short, in about a week
more I brought him #180 more, and about #60 in linen, which
I made him believe I had been obliged to take with the #100
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: show hospitality to all strangers; knowing that good deeds,
like evil ones, always return to those who do them.'
So Danae was comforted, and went home with Dictys the good
fisherman, and was a daughter to him and to his wife, till
fifteen years were past.
PART II - HOW PERSEUS VOWED A RASH VOW
FIFTEEN years were past and gone, and the babe was now grown
to be a tall lad and a sailor, and went many voyages after
merchandise to the islands round. His mother called him
Perseus; but all the people in Seriphos said that he was not
the son of mortal man, and called him the son of Zeus, the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: on this horrible apparition, until, with an angry countenance,
the being demanded by what right he intruded himself on those
hills, and destroyed their harmless inhabitants. The perplexed
stranger endeavoured to propitiate the incensed dwarf, by
offering to surrender his game, as he would to an earthly Lord of
the Manor. The proposal only redoubled the offence already taken
by the dwarf, who alleged that he was the lord of those
mountains, and the protector of the wild creatures who found a
retreat in their solitary recesses; and that all spoils derived
from their death, or misery, were abhorrent to him. The hunter
humbled himself before the angry goblin, and by protestations of
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