| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: to offend you. I wrote only today to my sister to tell her to come up next
month to our wedding, and I've been as affectionate and happy as possible.
Come--what's the matter?"
He put his arm half round her shoulder, very loosely.
"I think it would be better," she answered, slowly.
"Oh, well," he said, drawing himself up, "if you won't enter into
explanations you won't; and I'm not the man to beg and pray--not to any
woman, and you know that! If you don't want to marry me I can't oblige you
to, of course."
She stood quite still before him.
"You women never do know your own minds for two days together; and of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac: his left hand; the rainbow fires of the gem seemed to flash a sudden
light on the young Countess' mind; she blushed and looked at the Baron
with an undefinable expression.
"Do you like dancing?" asked the Provencal, to reopen the
conversation.
"Yes, very much, monsieur."
At this strange reply their eyes met. The young man, surprised by the
earnest accent, which aroused a vague hope in his heart, had suddenly
questioned the lady's eyes.
"Then, madame, am I not overbold in offering myself to be your partner
for the next quadrille?'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
NUM 14:35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil
congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness
they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
NUM 14:36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who
returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by
bringing up a slander upon the land,
NUM 14:37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the
land, died by the plague before the LORD.
NUM 14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh,
which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
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