| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: which they pretended to have received from me. I at once foresaw
a part of the truth, but my suspicions were infinitely surpassed
by what presented itself on going into my room. The lock of my
closet had been forced, and my cash as well as my best clothes
were gone. While I stood stupefied with amazement, Manon came,
in the greatest alarm, to inform me that her apartment had been
rifled in the same manner.
"This blow was so perfectly astounding, so cruel, that it was
with difficulty I could refrain from tears. The dread of
infecting Manon with my despair made me assume a more contented
air. I said, smiling, that I should avenge myself upon some
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: Of course, affairs had not come to this pass all at once. It was a
long history, beginning with the time when the two boys had played
together, and Raoul was twice as strong as the other, and was very
proud of it. Prosper did not care; it was all right so long as they
had a good time. But then Prosper began to do things better and
better. Raoul did not understand it; he was jealous. Why should he
not always be the leader? He had more force. Why should Prosper
get ahead? Why should he have better luck at the fishing and the
hunting and the farming? It was by some trick. There was no
justice in it.
Raoul was not afraid of anything but death; and whatever he wanted,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: Ner, and Nadab.
CH1 9:37 And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.
CH1 9:38 And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also dwelt with their
brethren at Jerusalem, over against their brethren.
CH1 9:39 And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat
Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
CH1 9:40 And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal: and Meribbaal begat
Micah.
CH1 9:41 And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea,
and Ahaz.
CH1 9:42 And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth,
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