| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: more gloomy than ever, having met his brother-in-law, who
informed him that he had just called in to see his sister (the
member's wife), and that she had told him that there would be no
dinner there.
"So that, evidently, we shall have to call in at a cook shop,"
the brother-in-law added, laughing.
"It is not at all funny," said the gloomy member, and became
gloomier still.
Then at last came the third member of the Court, the same Matthew
Nikitich, who was always late. He was a bearded man, with large,
round, kindly eyes. He was suffering from a catarrh of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: face that Tom thought for the moment that she did not look ugly at
all. And no more she did; for she was like a great many people who
have not a pretty feature in their faces, and yet are lovely to
behold, and draw little children's hearts to them at once because
though the house is plain enough, yet from the windows a beautiful
and good spirit is looking forth.
And Tom smiled in her face, she looked so pleasant for the moment.
And the strange fairy smiled too, and said:
"Yes. You thought me very ugly just now, did you not?"
Tom hung down his head, and got very red about the ears.
"And I am very ugly. I am the ugliest fairy in the world; and I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: sky; the rain has beaten holes in the walls, and the plaster is peeling
from it. The chapel stands here alone upon the promontory, and by day and
by night the sea breaks at its feet. Some say that it was set here by the
monks from the island down below, that they might bring their sick here in
times of deadly plague. Some say that it was set here that the passing
monks and friars, as they hurried by upon the roadway, might stop and say
their prayers here. Now no one stops to pray here, and the sick come no
more to be healed.
Behind it runs the old Roman road. If you climb it and come and sit there
alone on a hot sunny day you may almost hear at last the clink of the Roman
soldiers upon the pavement, and the sound of that older time, as you sit
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