| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: were standing.
The little girl caught the dress of one of the ladies, and came
pulling at her dress and bringing her across the ground to see the
stone chimney, and the little girl kept saying:
``Look, Mama! See, Mama! Isn't it a grand chimney? Won't it 'most
hold smoke?''
Bessie Bell stood still with her little hands--they were beginning
to be round pink little hands again, now--clasped in front of her
and wondered.
``See, Mama! Look, Mama!'' cried the little girl.
``Why does she say: Mama?'' asked Bessie Bell, because she just
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: your bargain? I have been figuring upon this," returned the
lawyer. "My client, I will not hide from you, was displeased
with me for putting her so high. I think we were both too
heated, Mr. Pinkerton: rivalry--the spirit of competition. But I
will be quite frank--I know when I am dealing with gentlemen
--and I am almost certain, if you leave the matter in my hands,
my client would relieve you of the bargain, so as you would
lose"--he consulted our faces with gimlet-eyed calculation--
"nothing," he added shrilly.
And here Pinkerton amazed me.
"That's a little too thin," said he. "I have the wreck. I know
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: the good word of thy Lord was fulfilled on the children of Israel, for
that they were patient; and we destroyed that which Pharaoh and his
people had made and that which they had piled. And with the children
of Israel we passed across the sea; and they came unto a people
devoted to their idols, and said, 'O Moses! make for us a god as
they have gods.' Said he, 'Verily, ye are ignorant people.' Verily,
these- destroyed shall be that which they are given to; and vain is
that which they have done.
He said, 'Other than God then do ye crave for a god, when He has
preferred you above the worlds?'
And when we saved you from Pharaoh's people who wrought you evil
The Koran |
