| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: of the Church. Therefore, if any preferred to use both kinds
of the Sacrament, they ought not to have been compelled with
offense to their consciences to do otherwise. And because the
division of the Sacrament does not agree with the ordinance of
Christ, we are accustomed to omit the procession, which
hitherto has been in use.
Article XXIII: Of the Marriage of Priests.
There has been common complaint concerning the examples of
priests who were not chaste. For that reason also Pope Pius is
reported to have said that there were certain causes why
marriage was taken away from priests, but that there were far
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: president, who looked like a rusty iron nail, felt that his courtship
was progressing.
"Don't stand on ceremony," said Grandet, entering. "How well you do
things on fete-days, Monsieur le president!"
"When it concerns mademoiselle," said the abbe, armed with his own
bouquet, "every day is a fete-day for my nephew."
The abbe kissed Eugenie's hand. As for Maitre Cruchot, he boldly
kissed her on both cheeks, remarking: "How we sprout up, to be sure!
Every year is twelve months."
As he replaced the candlestick beside the clock, Grandet, who never
forgot his own jokes, and repeated them to satiety when he thought
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: to us about the Nonpartisan League, the lawyers sting us,
the machinery-dealers hate to carry us over bad years, and
then their daughters put on swell dresses and look at us as
if we were a bunch of hoboes. Man, I'd like to burn this
town!"
Kennicott observed, "There's that old crank Wes Brannigan
shooting off his mouth again. Gosh, but he loves to hear himself
talk! They ought to run that fellow out of town!"
VII
She felt old and detached through high-school commencement
week, which is the fete of youth in Gopher Prairie;
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