| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: paper, and read.
No sooner had he looked at it than he began to stagger; his
hand trembled, and very nearly let the paper fall to the
ground; and the expression of pain and compassion in his
features was really frightful to see.
It was that fly-leaf, taken from the Bible, which Cornelius
de Witt had sent to Dort by Craeke, the servant of his
brother John, to request Van Baerle to burn the
correspondence of the Grand Pensionary with the Marquis de
Louvois.
This request, as the reader may remember, was couched in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: and Wetzel declare the only good Indian is a dead one. Come right in here.
There are your packs, and you'll find water outside the door."
Thus saying, Colonel Zane led the brothers into a small room, brought out
their packs, and left them. He came back presently with a couple of soft
towels.
"Now you lads fix up a bit; then come out and meet my family and tell us all
about your adventure. By that time dinner will be ready."
"Geminy! Don't that towel remind you of home?" said Joe, when the colonel had
gone. "From the looks of things, Colonel Zane means to have comfort here in
the wilderness. He struck me as being a fine man."
The boys were indeed glad to change the few articles of clothing the Indians
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: the barren city, he had the privilege of overlooking this spot of
lovely and luxuriant vegetation. It would serve, he said to
himself, as a symbolic language to keep him in communion with
Nature. Neither the sickly and thoughtworn Dr. Giacomo
Rappaccini, it is true, nor his brilliant daughter, were now
visible; so that Giovanni could not determine how much of the
singularity which he attributed to both was due to their own
qualities and how much to his wonder-working fancy; but he was
inclined to take a most rational view of the whole matter.
In the course of the day he paid his respects to Signor Pietro
Baglioni, professor of medicine in the university, a physician of
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