| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: drew me out - the Lord reward her for it! - or to that cold,
unbieldy, marine place of the Bass Rock, which, with my
delicate kist, would be fair ruin to me. But I will be
valiant in my Master's service. I have a duty here: a duty
to my God, to myself, and to Haddo: in His strength, I will
perform it.'
Then he straitly discharged Francie to repeat the tale, and
bade him in the future to avert his very eyes from the doings
of the curate. 'You must go to his place of idolatry; look
upon him there!' says he, 'but nowhere else. Avert your
eyes, close your ears, pass him by like a three days' corp.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum: would be right to harness them like horses. But no one harnesses deer
because they are free, wild creatures, owing no service of any sort to
mankind. It would degrade my deer to labor for Claus, who is only a
man in spite of the friendship lavished on him by the immortals."
"You have heard," said the Prince to Ak. "There is truth in what
Will says."
"Call Glossie and Flossie," returned the Master.
The deer were brought to the conference and Ak asked them if they
objected to drawing the sledge for Claus.
"No, indeed!" replied Glossie; "we enjoyed the trip very much."
"And we tried to get home by daybreak," added Flossie, "but were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: my paper?" said Thuillier, interrogatively.
"Parbleu!" replied Cerizet; "the affair of this house which he helped
you to buy was mine; I started that hare. He was to put me in relation
with you, and make me the principal tenant of the house. But the
unfortunate affair of that bidding-in gave him a chance to knock me
out of everything and get all the profits for himself."
"Profits!" exclaimed Thuillier. "I don't see that he got anything out
of that transaction, except the marriage which he now refuses--"
"But," interrupted Cerizet, "there's the ten thousand francs he got
out of you on pretence of the cross which you never received, and the
twenty-five thousand he owes to Madame Lambert, for which you went
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