| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum: lovely banquet-hall!"
So Berna and Helda spread a cloth and brought from their baskets some
golden platters and a store of food. Yet there was little ceremony
over the meal, you may be sure, and within a short space all the
children had satisfied their appetites and were laughing and chatting
as merrily as if they were at home in the great castle. Indeed, it is
certain they were happier in their forest glade than when facing grim
walls of stone, and the three were in such gay spirits that whatever
one chanced to say the others promptly joined in laughing over.
Soon, however, they were startled to hear a silvery peal of laughter
answering their own, and turning to see whence the sound proceeded,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: thou judgest otherwise, and since the bones of thine own body are
to thee a type of death, why dost thou not recollect thy latter
end so shortly to come, and set thine house in order, instead of
giving up thy soul to all kinds of iniquities, and violently and
unmercifully murdering the servants of God and lovers of
righteousness, who have done thee no wrong, and seek not to share
with thee in present goods, nor are ambitious to rob thee of
them?"
Said the king, "I do well to punish you, ye clever misleaders of
the folk, because ye deceive all men, counselling them to abstain
from the enjoyments of life; and because, instead of the sweets
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson: extraordinary how many little services Van Tromp contrived to
render in the course of six-and-thirty hours. He occupied a
position between a friend and a courier, which made him worse
than embarrassing to repay. But those whom he obliged could
always buy one of his villainous little pictures, or, where
the favours had been prolonged and more than usually
delicate, might order and pay for a large canvas, with
perfect certainty that they would hear no more of the
transaction.
Among resident artists he enjoyed celebrity of a non-
professional sort. He had spent more money - no less than
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