| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: Venters's agitated face grew coldly set and the bronze changed
Jane impulsively stepped forward. "Oh! Elder Tull!" she cried.
"You won't do that!"
Tull lifted a shaking finger toward her.
"That'll do from you. Understand, you'll not be allowed to hold
this boy to a friendship that's offensive to your Bishop. Jane
Withersteen, your father left you wealth and power. It has turned
your head. You haven't yet come to see the place of Mormon women.
We've reasoned with you, borne with you. We've patiently waited.
We've let you have your fling, which is more than I ever saw
granted to a Mormon woman. But you haven't come to your senses.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: of such extreme age was preserved. About fifty years since,
the library of Thonock Hall, in the parish of Gainsborough,
the seat of the Hickman family, underwent great repairs,
the books being sorted over by a most ignorant person,
whose selection seems to have been determined by the coat.
All books without covers were thrown into a great heap,
and condemned to all the purposes which Leland laments
in the sack of the conventual libraries by the visitors.
But they found favour in the eyes of a literate gardener,
who begged leave to take what he liked home. He selected a large
quantity of Sermons preached before the House of Commons,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: brothers, not forgetting the wine-cup. For what
saith the text, _Vinum ltificat cor hominis_; and
again, _Rex delectabitur pulchritudine tua_.
``Till which merry meeting, we wish you farewell.
Given from this den of thieves, about the
hour of matins,
``Aymer Pr. S. M. Jorvolciencis.
``_Postscriptum_. Truly your golden chain hath not
long abidden with me, and will now sustain, around
the neck of an outlaw deer-stealer, the whistle
wherewith he calleth on his hounds.''
Ivanhoe |
