| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo: may help." He gathered up the garlands which Polly had left on
the ground. His eyes were shining, he looked younger than Mandy
had ever seen him.
Polly had turned her back at the sound of Mandy's voice and
crossed to the elm tree, drying her tears of happiness and trying
to control her newly awakened emotions. Douglas felt intuitively
that she needed this moment for recovery, so he piled the leaves
and garlands high in Mandy's arms, then ran into the house with
the light step of a boy.
"I got the set-sit-settin' room all tidied up," said Mandy as she
shot a sly glance at Polly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: "Good evening, Grandet," he said, holding out his hand and affecting a
sort of superiority, with which he always crushed the Cruchots.
"Mademoiselle," he added, turning to Eugenie, after bowing to Madame
Grandet, "you are always beautiful and good, and truly I do not know
what to wish you." So saying, he offered her a little box which his
servant had brought and which contained a Cape heather,--a flower
lately imported into Europe and very rare.
Madame des Grassins kissed Eugenie very affectionately, pressed her
hand, and said: "Adolphe wishes to make you my little offering."
A tall, blond young man, pale and slight, with tolerable manners and
seemingly rather shy, although he had just spent eight or ten thousand
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: Ioasaph's death, there came by divine revelation, from one of the
neighbouring cells, a certain holy man. It was the same that
once pointed out to Ioasaph his way to Barlaam. This man
honoured the corpse with sacred hymns, and shed tears, the token
of affection, over him, and performed all the last Christian
rites, and laid him in the sepulchre of his father Barlaam; for
it was only meet that their bodies should rest side by side,
since their souls were to dwell through eternity together.
In obedience to the strict command of a dread Angel that appeared
to him in a dream, this hermit, who had performed the last rites,
journeyed to the kingdom of India, and, entering in to King
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