| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: "You will tell Mr. Westmacott, Jasper," he had said, when Jasper told
him that they could not receive him, "that he would be unwise not to
see me, and the same to Mistress Wilding."
And old Jasper had carried his message, and had told Richard of the
wicked smile that had been on Sir Rowland's lips when he had uttered it.
Now Richard was in many ways a changed man since that night at Weston
Zoyland. A transformation seemed to have been wrought in him as odd as
it was sudden, and it dated from the moment when with tears in his eyes
he had wrung Wilding's hand in farewell. Where precept had failed,
Richard found himself converted by example. He contrasted himself in
that stressful hour with great-souled Anthony Wilding, and saw himself
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I swear that hence I will depart no more!"
Then all the Angels cried, "O Holy One,
See what the son of Levi here hath done!
The kingdom of Heaven he takes by violence,
And in Thy name refuses to go hence!"
The Lord replied, "My Angels, be not wroth;
Did e'er the son of Levi break his oath?
Let him remain; for he with mortal eye
Shall look upon my face and yet not die."
Beyond the outer wall the Angel of Death
Heard the great voice, and said, with panting breath,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: PSA 22:3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of
Israel.
PSA 22:4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst
deliver them.
PSA 22:5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in
thee, and were not confounded.
PSA 22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised
of the people.
PSA 22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the
lip, they shake the head, saying,
PSA 22:8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him
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