| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: whose precautions were, from their point of view, justified by the
results.
I shall not enter into the deep question of the origin of
Freemasonry. One uninitiate, as I am, has no right to give an
opinion on the great questions of the mediaeval lodge of Kilwinning
and its Scotch degrees; on the seven Templars, who, after poor
Jacques Molay was burnt at Paris, took refuge on the Isle of Mull,
in Scotland, found there another Templar and brother Mason,
ominously named Harris; took to the trowel in earnest, and revived
the Order;--on the Masons who built Magdeburg Cathedral in 876; on
the English Masons assembled in Pagan times by "St. Albone, that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "Mother!" she said. "Am I to stand this sort of thing indefinately?
Because if I am I shall go to France and scrub floors in a Hospitle."
Well, I reflected, that would be almost as good as having her get
married. Besides being a good chance to marry over there, the
unaform being becoming to most, especialy of Leila's tipe.
That night, in the drawing room, while Sis sulked and father was
out and mother was ofering the cook more money to go to the
country, I said to Carter Brooks:
"Why don't you stop hanging round, and make her marry you?"
"I'd like to know what's running about in that mad head of yours,
Bab," he said. "Of course if you say so I'll try, but don't count
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: underground kingdom?"
"No!" they all shouted, with big voices; and the Scarecrow added:
"If he will not come, we will dig him out of his hole, like a fox, and
conquer his stubbornness. But our sweet little ruler must always
maintain her dignity, just as I maintain mine."
"I'm not afraid to plead with him," said Dorothy. "I'm only a little
girl from Kansas, and we've got more dignity at home than we know what
to do with. I'LL call the Nome King."
"Do," said the Hungry Tiger; "and if he makes hash of you I'll
willingly eat you for breakfast tomorrow morning."
So Dorothy stepped forward and said:
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