| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: in it some element of hope or comfort. Go, my husband!
God can, if He wishes it, guard me as well alone as with
any one present."
So I started up crying out, "Then in God's name let us come at once,
for we are losing time. The Count may come to Piccadilly earlier
than we think."
"Not so!" said Van Helsing, holding up his hand.
"But why?" I asked.
"Do you forget," he said, with actually a smile, "that last night
he banqueted heavily, and will sleep late?"
Did I forget! Shall I ever. . .can I ever! Can any of us
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: supposing it - that Damien faltered and stumbled in his
narrow path of duty; I will suppose that, in the horror of
his isolation, perhaps in the fever of incipient disease, he,
who was doing so much more than he had sworn, failed in the
letter of his priestly oath - he, who was so much a better
man than either you or me, who did what we have never dreamed
of daring - he too tasted of our common frailty. 'O, Iago,
the pity of it!' The least tender should be moved to tears;
the most incredulous to prayer. And all that you could do
was to pen your letter to the Reverend H. B. Gage!
Is it growing at all clear to you what a picture you have
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: The silver sound of bridal bells
In the falling summer rain.
Four little chests all in a row,
Dim with dust, and worn by time,
Four women, taught by weal and woe
To love and labor in their prime.
Four sisters, parted for an hour,
None lost, one only gone before,
Made by love's immortal power,
Nearest and dearest evermore.
Oh, when these hidden stores of ours
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