| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: their tea, had overheard the two or three phrases exchanged in their
immediate neighborhood.
"Jove, it's at Nana's then," murmured La Faloise. "I might have
expected as much!"
Georges said nothing, but he was all aflame. His fair hair was in
disorder; his blue eyes shone like tapers, so fiercely had the vice,
which for some days past had surrounded him, inflamed and stirred
his blood. At last he was going to plunge into all that he had
dreamed of!
"I don't know the address," La Faloise resumed.
"She lives on a third floor in the Boulevard Haussmann, between the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: official. And if he perceives that the affair could be better
administered by other hands than his own, then it is his business to
get it into those hands with the smallest delay and the least profit
to himself. . . .
The rights and wrongs of human equity are very different from right
and wrong in the sight of God. In the sight of God no landlord has
a RIGHT to his rent, no usurer has a RIGHT to his interest. A man
is not justified in drawing the profits from an advantageous
agreement nor free to spend the profits of a speculation as he will.
God takes no heed of savings nor of abstinence. He recognises no
right to the "rewards of abstinence," no right to any rewards.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: beside him. Then spake Theudas unto the king, "O king, live for
ever under the shelter of the favour of the most puissant gods!
I have heard that thou hast foughten a mighty fight with the
Galileans, and hast been crowned with right glorious diadems of
victory. Wherefore I am come, that we may celebrate together a
feast of thanksgiving, and sacrifice to the immortal gods young
men in the bloom of youth and well-favoured damsels, and eke
offer them an hecatomb of bullocks and herds of beasts, that we
may have them from henceforth for our allies invincible, making
plain our path of life before us."
Hereto the king made answer, "We have not conquered, aged sir, we
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