| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: attracted me, partly - partly because he did not make love to me.
He even seemed to avoid me, and I was piqued. I had been spoiled,
I suppose. Most of the other men I knew had - had - "
"I know that, too," I said bitterly, and moved away from her a
trifle. I was brutal, but the whole story was a long torture. I
think she knew what I was suffering, for she showed no resentment.
"It was early and there were few people around - none that I cared
about. And mother and the nurse played cribbage eternally, until I
felt as though the little pegs were driven into my brain. And when
Mrs. Curtis arranged drives and picnics, I - I slipped away and went.
I suppose you won't believe me, but I had never done that kind of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: and satins out of nothing at all, and the little Tailor sat and
gaped and stared. Then the Demon began to drive the needle like a
spark of fire--the like was never seen in all the seven kingdoms,
for the clothes seemed to make themselves.
At last, at the end of a little while, the Demon stood up and
brushed his hands. "They are done," said he, and thereupon he
instantly vanished. But the Tailor cared little for that, for
upon the bench there lay such a suit of clothes of silk and satin
stuff, sewed with threads of gold and silver and set with jewels,
as the eyes of man never saw before; and the Tailor packed them
up and marched off with them himself to the prime-minister.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment
of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts
be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary
for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate
and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation
till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended,
he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of
large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish
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