| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: moreover, who had the impudence to boast that city ladies were
not so faithful to their husbands as was generally supposed, and,
moreover, the boldness to assert that they painted. Indeed, he
marvelled much, that since such men were frequenters of
Whitehall, sacred fire from heaven had not long since descended
and consumed the royal palace to ashes. Such virtuous sentiments
as these, expressed by so gallant a man, made him acceptable in
many homes: and the result was he speedily became surfeited by
banquets, suppers, and other hospitalities, to which the
excellent but credulous citizens bade him heartily welcome.
He therefore disappeared from their midst one day as suddenly and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling: them laughing. Dan and Una, who had been picking
after their lessons, marched off to roast potatoes at the
oast-house, where old Hobden, with Blue-eyed Bess, his
lurcher dog, lived all the month through, drying the hops.
They settled themselves, as usual, on the sack-strewn
cot in front of the fires, and, when Hobden drew up the
shutter, stared, as usual, at the flameless bed of coals
spouting its heat up the dark well of the old-fashioned
roundel. Slowly he cracked off a few fresh pieces of coal,
packed them, with fingers that never flinched, exactly
where they would do most good; slowly he reached
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Alkahest by Honore de Balzac: asperities of daily life. In the one, it is indifference or stolidity;
in the other, indulgence and a portion of the divine thought of which
he is the interpreter, and which needs to be consistent alike in
principle and application. Both natures are equally simple; but in one
there is vacancy, in the other depth. This is why clever women are
disposed to take dull men as the small change for great ones.
Balthazar Claes carried his greatness into the lesser things of life.
He delighted in considering conjugal love as a magnificent work; and
like all men of lofty aims who can bear nothing imperfect, he wished
to develop all its beauties. His powers of mind enlivened the calm of
happiness, his noble nature marked his attentions with the charm of
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