| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: came by her knowledge. "The letter, no doubt, was in an outer wrapper,
on which there would be a superscription - the name of the person to
whom the letter was addressed?" he half questioned, and Luttrell, who
saw the drift of the question, nodded gravely.
"No doubt," said Ruth.
"Now you will acknowledge, I am sure, madam, that such a wrapper would
be a document of the greatest importance, as important, indeed, as the
letter itself, since we could depend upon it finally to clear up this
point on which we differ. You will admit so much, I think?"
"Why, yes," she answered, but her voice faltered a little, and her
glance was not quite so fearless. She, too, saw at last the pit he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 91: 7 A thousand may fall at Thy side, and ten thousand at Thy right hand; it shall not come nigh thee.
Psalms 91: 8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the recompense of the wicked.
Psalms 91: 9 For thou hast made the LORD who is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation.
Psalms 91: 10 There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.
Psalms 91: 11 For He will give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
Psalms 91: 12 They shall bear thee upon their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Psalms 91: 13 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and asp; the young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under feet.
Psalms 91: 14 'Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known My name.
Psalms 91: 15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him, and bring him to honour.
Psalms 91: 16 With long life will I satisfy him, and make Him to behold My salvation.'
Psalms 92: 1 (92:1) A Psalm, a Song. For the sabbath day. (92:2) It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto Thy name, O Most High;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo: same, and it was good of Barker to keep my place for me, but I
can't go back."
He turned away; she clung to the rough, brown sleeve. "Why, Jim,
when I lie in my little room up there at night"--she glanced
toward the window above them--"and everything is peaceful and
still, I think how it used to be in the old days, the awful noise
and the rush of it all, the cheerless wagons, the mob in the
tent, the ring with its blazing lights, the whirling round and
round on Bingo, and the hoops, always the hoops, till my head got
dizzy and my eyes all dim; and then the hurry after the show, and
the heat and the dust or the mud and the rain, and the rumble of
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