| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: say you do not know her!" she exclaimed.
"Oh, so she is Victory, and you are her sister! I have not
heard her name before. That is why I did not know whom you
meant," I explained. Here was just the messenger for me.
Fate was becoming more kind.
"Will you do something for me, Mary?" I asked.
"If I can."
"Go to your mother, the queen, and ask her to come to me," I
said. "I have a favor to ask."
She said that she would, and with a parting smile she left
me.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: his mourning, he at once devoted himself to the public
affairs of the state.
Now Ptolemy, the king of Egypt, promised him assistance, but
demanded his mother and children for hostages. This, for
some considerable time, he was ashamed to discover to his
mother; and though he often went to her on purpose, and was
just upon the discourse, yet he still refrained, and kept it
to himself; so that she began to suspect, and asked his
friends, whether Cleomenes had something to say to her, which
he was afraid to speak. At last, Cleomenes venturing to tell
her, she laughed aloud, and said, "Was this the thing that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: this latest petition was presented to the monarch, Oates had been
examined before the House for over six hours; and so delighted
was he by the unprejudiced manner in which his statements were
received, that he added several items to them. These were not
only interesting in themselves, but implicated peers and persons
of quality to the number of twenty-six. The former, including
Lords Stafford, Powis, Petre, Bellasis, and Arundel of Wardour,
were committed to the Tower, the latter to Newgate prison.
At the end of his examination he was several times asked if he
knew more of the plot, or of those concerned with it, to which he
emphatically replied he did not. Three days later he remembered
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