| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: each other in ecstasy and the old man called them his Saint Cecilias.
The two Maries were not taken to a ball until they were sixteen years
of age, and then only four times a year in special houses. They were
not allowed to leave their mother's side without instructions as to
their behavior with their partners; and so severe were those
instructions that they dared say only yes or no during a dance. The
eye of the countess never left them, and she seemed to know from the
mere movement of their lips the words they uttered. Even the ball-
dresses of these poor little things were piously irreproachable; their
muslin gowns came up to their chins with an endless number of thick
ruches, and the sleeves came down to their wrists. Swathing in this
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: And no slight matter was a singing-bout
'Twixt Corydon and Thyrsis. Howsoe'er,
I let my business wait upon their sport.
So they began to sing, voice answering voice
In strains alternate- for alternate strains
The Muses then were minded to recall-
First Corydon, then Thyrsis in reply.
CORYDON
"Libethrian Nymphs, who are my heart's delight,
Grant me, as doth my Codrus, so to sing-
Next to Apollo he- or if to this
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: that it was cold, and lied for the donga was extremely hot and
stuffy.
At length the silver radiance of the moon spread itself on the
high curtain of the dark. Then the edge of her orb appeared
above the hill and an arrow of white light fell into the little
valley. It struck upon and about the jutting rock, revealing a
misshapen, white-headed figure squatted between its base and the
fire, the figure of Zikali.
CHAPTER XV
THE GREAT COUNCIL
None had seen or heard him come, and though doubtless he had but
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