| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Roads of Destiny by O. Henry: listening to you I don't see why she can't be landed.'
"'By you?' says I.
"'By me,' says Fergus.
Well, Fergus and the duenna, Francesca, attended to the details. And
one night they fetched me a long black cloak with a high collar, and
led me to the house at midnight. I stood by the window in the /patio/
until I heard a voice as soft and sweet as an angel's whisper on the
other side of the bars. I could see only a faint, white clad shape
inside; and, true to Fergus, I pulled the collar of my cloak high up,
for it was July in the wet seasons, and the nights were chilly. And,
smothering a laugh as I thought of the tongue-tied Fergus, I began to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Proverbs 17: 19 He loveth transgression that loveth strife; he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
Proverbs 17: 20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good; and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into evil.
Proverbs 17: 21 He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow; and the father of a churl hath no joy.
Proverbs 17: 22 A merry heart is a good medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Proverbs 17: 23 A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom, to pervert the ways of justice.
Proverbs 17: 24 Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Proverbs 17: 25 A foolish son is vexation to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.
Proverbs 17: 26 To punish also the righteous is not good, nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.
Proverbs 17: 27 He that spareth his words hath knowledge; and he that husbandeth his spirit is a man of discernment.
Proverbs 17: 28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise; and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed as a man of understanding.
Proverbs 18: 1 He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, and snarlest against all sound wisdom.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: defeated and dispersed, their leader butchered on the field, it
seemed, - for a very brief season in the winter following upon the
events already recorded, as if the House of Lancaster had finally
triumphed over its foes.
The small town of Shoreby-on-the-Till was full of the Lancastrian
nobles of the neighbourhood. Earl Risingham was there, with three
hundred men-at-arms; Lord Shoreby, with two hundred; Sir Daniel
himself, high in favour and once more growing rich on
confiscations, lay in a house of his own, on the main street, with
three-score men. The world had changed indeed.
It was a black, bitter cold evening in the first week of January,
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