| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: Kent's tone was grim. "And Colonel McIntyre only gave me until
Saturday night to work in."
Clymer eyed him in surprise. "McIntyre desires to get back his
lost securities; judging from his comments after the inquest, he is
not particularly interested in who killed Turnbull."
"But I am," exclaimed Kent. "The more I think of it, the more
convinced I am that the forged letter, with the subsequent
disappearance of McIntyre's securities has some connection with
Jimmie's untimely death, be it murder or suicide."
"Suicide?" Clymer' s raised eyebrows indicated his surprise.
"Yes," shortly. "Aconitine would have killed just as surely if
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: This proposition, which Luther here amplifies more clearly than
ever before, demanded nothing less than a breach with the whole
of prevalent religious views, and at that time must have been
perceived as the discovery of a new world, though it was no more
than a return to the clear teaching of the New Testament
Scriptures concerning the way of salvation. This, too, accounts
for the fact that in this writing the accusation is more
impressively repelled than before, that the doctrine of
justification by faith alone resulted in moral laxity, and that,
on the other hand, the fundamental and radical importance of
righteousness by faith for the whole moral life is revealed in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: "God's truth! you are like my poor Jeanne, dear child!" he said.
"Teach me what would give you pleasure, and I will give you all you
can desire. Grow strong! be well! I will show you how to ride a mare
as pretty and gentle as yourself. Nothing shall ever thwart or trouble
you. Tete-Dieu! all things bow to me as the reeds to the wind. I give
you unlimited power. I bow to you myself as the god of the family."
The father carried his son into the lordly chamber where the mother's
sad existence had been spent. Etienne turned away and leaned against
the window from which his mother was wont to make him signals
announcing the departure of his persecutor, who now, without his
knowing why, had become his slave, like those gigantic genii which the
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