| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: Who would dice with the devil, and yet rise up winner,
I say, lose no time! get it out of the grab
Of her trustee and uncle, Sir Ridley McNab.
I trust those deposits, at least, are drawn out,
And safe at this moment from danger or doubt.
A wink is as good as a nod to the wise.
Verbum sap. I admit nothing yet justifies
My mistrust; but I have in my own mind a notion
That old Ridley's white waistcoat, and airs of devotion,
Have long been the only ostensible capital
On which he does business. If so, time must sap it all,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: relation between them on that day, nor shall they beg of each other
then!
And he whose scales are heavy,-they are the prosperous. But he whose
scales are light,-these are they who lose themselves, in hell to dwell
for aye! The fire shall scorch their faces, and they shall curl
their lips therein! 'Were not my signs recited to you? and ye said
that they were lies!' They say, 'Our Lord our misery overcame us,
and we were a people who did err! Our Lord! take us out therefrom, and
if we return, then shall we be unjust.'
He will say, 'Go ye away into it and speak not to me!'
Verily, there was a sect of my servants who said, 'Our Lord! we
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: so contumacious as to resist Latin, and even the first verses of
the Gospel of St. John in Greek, which the good Father never had
recourse to but in cases of extreme stubbornness and difficulty,--
(here Stanton recollected the English story of the Boy of Bilson,
and blushed even in Spain for his countrymen),--then he always
applied to the Inquisition; and if the devils were ever so
obstinate before, they were always seen to fly out of the
possessed, just as, in the midst of their cries (no doubt of
blasphemy), they were tied to the stake. Some held out even till
the flames surrounded them; but even the most stubborn must have
been dislodged when the operation was over, for the devil himself
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