| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: inquiry as to Rodd's death, remembering that in Natal these two
young people could get married, which, being in loco parentis, I
thought it desirable they should do as soon as possible, if only
to ease me of my responsibilities. Also thence I could attend to
the matter of Heda's inheritance and rid myself of her father's
will that already had been somewhat damaged in the Crocodile
River, though not as much as it might have been since I had taken
the precaution to enclose it in Anscombe's sponge bag before we
left the house.
The circumstance was this: On emerging from the cart one morning,
where I slept to keep an eye upon the valuables, for it will be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: and yet I felt that I loved this woman as much, more perhaps,
than I had ever loved her.
It was difficult for me to begin the conversation on the subject
which brought her. Marguerite no doubt realized it, for she went
on:
"I have come to trouble you, Armand, for I have two things to
ask: pardon for what I said yesterday to Mlle. Olympe, and pity
for what you are perhaps still ready to do to me. Intentionally
or not, since your return you have given me so much pain that I
should be incapable now of enduring a fourth part of what I have
endured till now. You will have pity on me, won't you? And you
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Samuel 24: 17 (24:18) And he said to David: `Thou art more righteous than I; for thou hast rendered unto me good, whereas I have rendered unto thee evil.
1_Samuel 24: 18 (24:19) And thou hast declared this day how that thou hast dealt well with me; forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me up into thy hand, thou didst not kill me.
1_Samuel 24: 19 (24:20) For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that which thou hast done unto me this day.
1_Samuel 24: 20 (24:21) And now, behold, I know that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thy hand.
1_Samuel 24: 21 (24:22) Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.'
1_Samuel 24: 22 (24:23) And David swore unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men got them up unto the stronghold.
1_Samuel 25: 1 And Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
1_Samuel 25: 2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
1_Samuel 25: 3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful form; but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
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