| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: barn-door fowl, ushered in a most explosive sneeze; the head of
the sufferer was at the same time brought smartly in contact with
the boards above; and the sneeze was followed by a hollow groan.
Julia fled to the door, and there, with the salutary instinct of
the brave, turned and faced the danger. There was no pursuit. The
sounds continued; below the table a crouching figure was
indistinctly to be seen jostled by the throes of a sneezing-fit;
and that was all.
'Surely,' thought Julia, 'this is most unusual behaviour. He
cannot be a man of the world!'
Meanwhile the dust of years had been disturbed by the young
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: others might talk about them. The old lady now told her granddaughter
to leave her alone with Madame Bridau and Joseph until the arrival of
visitors.
"For," she said, turning to the Parisians, "I know my Issoudun by
heart; we shall have ten or twelve batches of inquisitive folk here
to-night."
In fact Madame Hochon had hardly related the events and the details
concerning the astounding influence obtained by Maxence Gilet and the
Rabouilleuse over Jean-Jacques Rouget (without, of course, following
the synthetical method with which they have been presented here),
adding the many comments, descriptions, and hypotheses with which the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: fully after the LORD, as did David his father.
KI1 11:7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the
abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for
Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
KI1 11:8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt
incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
KI1 11:9 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was
turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
KI1 11:10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should
not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.
KI1 11:11 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is
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