| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett: which had lain at her feet.
"Well, mother, here I be!" she announced with indifference;
but they stood and beamed in each other's faces.
"Lookin' pretty well for an old lady, ain't she?" said Mrs.
Todd's mother, turning away from her daughter to speak to me. She
was a delightful little person herself, with bright eyes and an
affectionate air of expectation like a child on a holiday. You
felt as if Mrs. Blackett were an old and dear friend before you let
go her cordial hand. We all started together up the hill.
"Now don't you haste too fast, mother," said Mrs. Todd
warningly; "'tis a far reach o' risin' ground to the fore door, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: to play.
She stepped forward now, and with her free hand suddenly pulled the
table toward her out of their reach; and then, as she picked up the
necklace, she appeared for the first time to become aware of the
presence of the huddled form on the floor near the wall. She could
see that the Sparrow was bound and gagged, and as he squirmed now
he turned his face toward her.
"Why, it's the Sparrow, isn't it?" she exclaimed sharply; then,
evenly, to the two men: "I had no idea you were so hospitable!
Push your chairs closer together - with your feet, not your hands!
You are easier to watch if you are not too far apart."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
GEN 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
GEN 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and
for seasons, and for days, and years:
GEN 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to
give light upon the earth: and it was so.
GEN 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
GEN 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth,
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