| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "I wish you would try to look cheerful, Liddy," I groaned, "your
face would sour milk." But Liddy seldom replied to my gibes.
She folded her lips a little tighter.
"He called her up," she said oracularly, "he called her up, and
asked her to keep you at the telephone, so he could talk to Miss
Louise. A THANKLESS CHILD IS SHARPER THAN A SERPENT'S TOOTH."
"Nonsense!" I said bruskly. "I might have known enough to leave
them. It's a long time since you and I were in love, Liddy,
and--we forget."
Liddy sniffed.
"No man ever ,made a fool of me," she replied virtuously.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: have come in an evil hour, for they shall all be killed and
confounded. Then they made answer that they thought he would
have it so. "It is I whom you have insulted in doing your
pleasure. He has no reason to complain," the king replies; "you
have not shamed him at all, but only me who was protecting him.
However you look at it, the shame is mine. But if you escape me
now, you will see no joke in this." When Lancelot hears his
wrath, he puts forth every effort to make peace and adjust
matters; when his efforts have met with success, the king takes
him away to see the Queen. This time the Queen did not lower her
eyes to the ground, but she went to meet him cheerfully,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: Let in the lustre fitfully,
As their boughs parted momently,
To the soft, languid, summer breeze.
Alas! that she should e'er have flung
Those pure, though lonely joys away--
Deceived by false and guileful tongue,
She gave her hand, then suffered wrong;
Oppressed, ill-used, she faded young,
And died of grief by slow decay.
Open that casket-look how bright
Those jewels flash upon the sight;
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