| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: "perplexed i' the extreme," at the very moment that it is sending a
Minister of the Crown to make polite speeches to a man who is
bayoneting young girls in their fathers' sight, and killing noble
youths in cool blood, faster than a country butcher kills lambs in
spring. And, lastly, a great nation does not mock Heaven and its
Powers, by pretending belief in a revelation which asserts the love
of money to be the root of ALL evil, and declaring, at the same
time, that it is actuated, and intends to be actuated, in all chief
national deeds and measures, by no other love. {12}
My friends, I do not know why any of us should talk about reading.
We want some sharper discipline than that of reading; but, at all
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: "Meal-bags don't hurt, do they?" said Daphne coolly. My sister
is proud of her dainty feet.
"Vixen," replied her spouse.
I slipped my arm into that of the girl, who was leaning against
the wall shaking with laughter. Tears were coursing down my
cheeks. I drew her away from the door and whispered brokenly in
her ear. She nodded and pulled herself together. Then she went
to the door and knocked. Silence.
"Hullo," she said.
"Er-hullo," said Berry.
"I thought I heard somebody calling," said the girl.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: Portendueres."
"Would you let me die of hunger and despair for the chimera of
nobility, which has no reality to-day unless it has the lustre of
great wealth?"
"You could serve France and put faith in God."
"Would you postpone my happiness till after your death?"
"It would be horrible if you took it then,--that is all I have to
say."
"Louis XIV. came very near marrying the niece of Mazarin, a parvenu."
"Mazarin himself opposed it."
"Remember the widow Scarron."
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