| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: enemy as well, and is brought hither by my proclaimed enemies.
Should aught occur to my harm, I rest my case in your gracious
hands."
The dusty red flamed into the King's pale, sickly face in answer,
and he rose hastily from his seat.
"Aye," said he, "I remember me now--I remember me the man and the
name! Who hath dared bring him here before us?" All the dull
heaviness of sickness was gone for the moment, and King Henry was
the King Henry of ten years ago as he rolled his eyes balefully
from one to another of the courtiers who stood silently around.
The Earl of Mackworth shot a covert glance at the Bishop of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: come alive out of that butchery, it was, no doubt, because I was
reserved for some fate which I am bound to endure without murmuring.
God will protect His own; He can do with them according to His will.
It is for you, not for me that we must think."
"No," answered one of the women. "What is our life compared to a
priest's life?"
"Once outside the Abbaye de Chelles, I look upon myself as dead,"
added the nun who had not left the house, while the Sister that had
just returned held out the little box to the priest.
"Here are the wafers . . . but I can hear some one coming up the
stairs."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from From London to Land's End by Daniel Defoe: to the bank of the river, yet are never overflowed; nor are there
any marshes on either side the river to make the waters stagnate,
or the air unwholesome on that account. The river is high enough
to be navigable, and low enough to be a little pleasantly rapid; so
that the stream looks always cheerful, not slow and sleeping, like
a pond. This keeps the waters always clear and clean, the bottom
in view, the fish playing and in sight; and, in a word, it has
everything that can make an inland (or, as I may call it, a
country) river pleasant and agreeable.
I shall sing you no songs here of the river in the first person of
a water-nymph, a goddess, and I know not what, according to the
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