| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: disadvantage that the victim has no knowledge that justice has
overtaken him. Had you died, had you been torn limb from limb that
night, I should now repine in the thought of your eternal and
untroubled slumber. Not in euthanasia, but in torment of mind
should the guilty atone. You see, I am not sure that hell hereafter
is a certainty, whilst I am quite sure that it can be a certainty in
this life; and I desire you to continue to live yet awhile that you
may taste something of its bitterness.
"You murdered Philippe de Vilmorin because you feared what you
described as his very dangerous gift of eloquence, I took an oath
that day that your evil deed should be fruitless; that I would
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: That she's the chosen of Signior Hortensio.
TRANIO.
Softly, my masters! If you be gentlemen,
Do me this right; hear me with patience.
Baptista is a noble gentleman,
To whom my father is not all unknown;
And were his daughter fairer than she is,
She may more suitors have, and me for one.
Fair Leda's daughter had a thousand wooers;
Then well one more may fair Bianca have;
And so she shall: Lucentio shall make one,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: merchandise among the crowd of ships. And the heroes' hearts
were humbled, and they looked at each other and said, 'We
thought ourselves a gallant crew when we sailed from Iolcos
by the sea; but how small we look before this city, like an
ant before a hive of bees.'
Then the sailors hailed them roughly from the quay, 'What men
are you? - we want no strangers here, nor pirates. We keep
our business to ourselves.'
But Jason answered gently, with many a flattering word, and
praised their city and their harbour, and their fleet of
gallant ships. 'Surely you are the children of Poseidon, and
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