| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: Don't they, old thing?"
"I don't know what you mean," said Julius stiffly, but a large
and burning blush overspread his countenance.
"Shucks!" retorted Tuppence. She laughed, and closed the door,
reopening it to add with dignity: "Morally, I shall always
consider I have been jilted!"
"What was it?" asked Jane as Tuppence rejoined her.
"Julius."
"What did he want?"
"Really, I think, he wanted to see you, but I wasn't going to let
him. Not until to-night, when you're going to burst upon every
Secret Adversary |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum: advice, and asked him to lead the way. This he
did in a series of hops, and he moved so swiftly
in this strange manner that those with two legs
had to run to keep up with him.
Chapter Twenty-Two
The Joking Horners
It was not long before they left the passage and
came to a great cave, so high that it must have
reached nearly to the top of the mountain within
which it lay. It was a magnificent cave, illumined
by the soft, invisible light, so that everything
The Patchwork Girl of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: him out of his own. As (to give examples), when people quarrel and
wrangle about a large inheritance, real estate, etc., they avail
themselves of, and resort to, whatever has the appearance of right, so
dressing and adorning everything that the law must favor their side,
and they keep the property with such title that no one can make
complaint or lay claim thereto. In like manner, if any one desire to
have a castle, city, duchy, or any other great thing, he practices so
much financiering through relationships, and by any means he can, that
the other is judicially deprived of it, and it is adjudicated to him,
and confirmed with deed and seal and declared to have been acquired by
princely title and honestly.
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