| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: annoyed and gratified, resolved that he would do no such thing.
"Why haven't you been to see me?" asked Daisy. "You can't
get out of that."
"I have had the honor of telling you that I have only just stepped
out of the train."
"You must have stayed in the train a good while after it stopped!"
cried the young girl with her little laugh. "I suppose you were asleep.
You have had time to go to see Mrs. Walker."
"I knew Mrs. Walker--" Winterbourne began to explain.
"I know where you knew her. You knew her at Geneva.
She told me so. Well, you knew me at Vevey. That's just as good.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Several Works by Edgar Allan Poe: beat feverishly the heart of life. And the revel went whirlingly
on, until at length there commenced the sounding of midnight upon
the clock. And then the music ceased, as I have told; and the
evolutions of the waltzers were quieted; and there was an uneasy
cessation of all things as before. But now there were twelve
strokes to be sounded by the bell of the clock; and thus it
happened, perhaps, that more of thought crept, with more of time,
into the meditations of the thoughtful among those who revelled.
And thus too, it happened, perhaps, that before the last echoes of
the last chime had utterly sunk into silence, there were many
individuals in the crowd who had found leisure to become aware of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: surrender ourselves to sin. Deem not that it is a slight sin to
betray a fellow-combatant and fellow-soldier into thy hands.
Nay, but thou shalt not have that scoff to make at us; no, not if
thou put us to ten thousand deaths. We be not such cowards as to
betray our religion through dread of thy torments, or to disgrace
the law divine. So then, if such be thy purpose, make ready
every weapon to defend thy claim; for to us to live is Christ,
and to die for him is the best gain."
Incensed with anger thereat, the monarch ordered the tongues of
these Confessors to be rooted out, and their eyes digged out, and
likewise their hands and feet lopped off. Sentence passed, the
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