| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Quibus omnibus rebus permoti equites Treveri, quorum inter Gallos virtutis
opinio est singularis, qui auxilii causa a civitate missi ad Caesarem
venerant, cum multitudine hostium castra [nostra] compleri, legiones premi
et paene circumventas teneri, calones, equites, tunditores, Numidas
diversos dissipatosque in omnes partes fugere vidissent, desperatis
nostris rebus domum contenderunt: Romanos pulsos superatosque, castris
impedimentisque eorum hostes potitos civitati renuntiaverunt.
Caesar ab X. legionis cohortatione ad dextrum cornu prolectus, ubi
suos urgeri signisque in unum locum conlatis XII. legionis confertos
milites sibi ipsos ad pugnam esse impedimento vidit, quartae cohortis
omnibus centurionibus occisis signiferoque interfecto, signo amisso,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: these extraordinary persons?"
"Ay, truly extraordinary," cried Jacqueline. "To think of their
cunning; coming here under the very shadow of Notre-Dame! Still," she
went on, "or ever I ask the Dean, why not warn that fair and noble
lady of the risk she runs?"
As she spoke, Jacqueline went into the house with her husband, who had
not missed a mouthful. Tirechair, as a man grown old in the tricks of
his trade, affected to believe that the strange lady was in fact a
work-girl; still, this assumed indifference could not altogether cloak
the timidity of a courtier who respects a royal incognity. At this
moment six was striking by the clock of Saint-Denis du Pas, a small
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: woman thoughtfully.
George took off his glasses and rubbed them nervously as
he talked. "I don't understand my mother at all! She
has always been very considerate and kind. I never
thought that she would receive my wife, when I brought
her to her, with calm civility. Not a kiss nor a
blessing!"
"A kiss? A blessing for me?" Lisa laughed and nodded
meaningly to the sea and world at large. "She could
hardly have blessed a woman lolling full length in her
chair," she thought. "It IS her chair. And I have
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