| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: him the esteem of the court, but finally lost him the favour of
his king. For attaching himself to one of the maids of honour,
Mademoiselle La Motte Houdancourt, whom his most Christian
Majesty Louis XIV. had already honoured with his regard,
Grammont was banished from the French court.
Accordingly, in the second year of the merry monarch's reign he
presented himself at Whitehall, and was received by Charles with
a graciousness that served to obliterate the memory of his late
misfortune. Nor were the courtiers less warm in their greetings
than his majesty. The men hailed him as an agreeable companion;
the ladies intimated he need not wholly abandon those tender
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: the meat. It was in the spring, and I was alone. A great brown
bear, just awake from his winter's sleep, hungry, his fur hanging
to the bones in flaps of leanness, shoved his head within the
lodge and said, "Oof!" My brother came running back with the
first sled of meat. And he fought the bear with burning sticks
from the fire, and the dogs in their harnesses, with the sled
behind them, fell upon the bear. There was a great battle and
much noise. They rolled in the fire, the skin bales were
scattered, the lodge overthrown. But in the end the bear lay
dead, with the fingers of my brother in his mouth and the marks of
his claws upon my brother's face. Did you mark the Indian by the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum: quite cheerfully.
After dinner Mrs. Yoop took a big fiddle from a big
cupboard and played such loud and dreadful music that
her prisoners were all thankful when at last she
stopped and said she was going to bed.
After cautioning the Monkey and Bear and Owl to
behave themselves during the night, she picked up the
cage containing the Canary and, going to the door of
her bedroom, commanded it to open. just then, however,
she remembered she had left her fiddle lying upon a
table, so she went back for it and put it away in the
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