| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: good Christian and a faithful servant, who will spare neither
body nor soul in his master's service. However, the devil has
lifted him in time, for a Constable of the Hundred came hither
this morning to get old Gaffer Pinniewinks, the trier of witches,
to go with him to the Vale of Whitehorse to comprehend Wayland
Smith, and put him to his probation. I helped Pinniewinks to
sharpen his pincers and his poking-awl, and I saw the warrant
from Justice Blindas."
"Pooh--pooh--the devil would laugh both at Blindas and his
warrant, constable and witch-finder to boot," said old Dame
Crank, the Papist laundress; "Wayland Smith's flesh would mind
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: Unscissar'd shall this hair of mine remain,
Though I show ill in 't. So I take my leave
Good madam, make me blessed in your care
In bringing up my child.
DIONYZA.
I have one myself,
Who shall not be mere dear to my respect
Than yours, my lord.
PERICLES.
Madam, my thanks and prayers.
CLEON.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: masses of curls over her forehead, around her shoulders, and below her
waist, serving her for a shawl. Accustomed no doubt to this disorder,
she seldom pushed her hair from her forehead; and when she did so, it
was with a sudden toss of her head which only for a moment cleared her
forehead and eyes from the thick veil. Her gesture, like that of an
animal, had a remarkable mechanical precision, the quickness of which
seemed wonderful in a woman. The huntsmen were amazed to see her
suddenly leap up on the branch of an apple-tree, and sit there with
the ease of a bird. She gathered an apple and ate it; then she dropped
to the ground with the graceful ease we admire in a squirrel. Her
limbs possessed an elasticity which took from every movement the
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