| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: overlooked the thing on which you should have counted. You overlooked
my love. Count upon that, my Ruth, and Richard shall have naught to
fear. Count upon that, and when we meet this evening, Richard and I,
it is I who will tender the apology, I who will admit that I was wrong
to introduce your name into that company last night, and that what
Richard did was a just and well-deserved punishment upon me. This will
I do if you'll but count upon my love."
She looked up at him fearfully, yet with flutterings of hope. "What
is't you mean?" she asked him faintly.
"That if you'll promise to be my wife..."
"Your wife!" she interrupted him. She struggled to free herself,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde: corn, so foul was he to look at, and their hired men drave him
away, and there was none who had pity on him. Nor could he hear
anywhere of the beggar-woman who was his mother, though for the
space of three years he wandered over the world, and often seemed
to see her on the road in front of him, and would call to her, and
run after her till the sharp flints made his feet to bleed. But
overtake her he could not, and those who dwelt by the way did ever
deny that they had seen her, or any like to her, and they made
sport of his sorrow.
For the space of three years he wandered over the world, and in the
world there was neither love nor loving-kindness nor charity for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Open Letter on Translating by Dr. Martin Luther: What is the work by which we take hold of Christ's death and
resurrection? It must not be an external work but only the
eternal faith in the heart that alone, indeed all alone, which
takes hold of this death and resurrection when it is preached
through the gospel. Then why all this ranting and raving, this
making of heretics and burning of them, when it is clear at its
very core, proving that faith alone takes hold of Christ's death
and resurrection, without any works, and that his death and
resurrection are our life and righteousness? As this fact is so
obvious, that faith alone gives, brings, and takes a hold of this
life and righteousness - why should we not say so? It is not
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