| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: "No, indeed," replied Dorothy, "but I know all about
you and I've come to help you and King Rinkitink out of
your troubles." Then she turned to the Nome King and
continued: "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, King
Kaliko, to treat an honest Prince and an honest King so
badly."
"I haven't done anything to them," whined Kaliko,
trembling as her eyes flashed upon him.
"No; but you tried to, an' that's just as bad, if not
worse," said Dorothy, who was very indignant. "And now
I want you to send for the King and Queen of Pingaree
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: disposition; for wealth is power, and power was what David
Ritchie desired to possess, as a compensation for his exclusion
from human society.
His sister survived till the publication of the tale to which
this brief notice forms the introduction; and the author is sorry
to learn that a sort of "local sympathy," and the curiosity then
expressed concerning the Author of WAVERLEY and the subjects of
his Novels, exposed the poor woman to enquiries which gave her
pain. When pressed about her brother's peculiarities, she asked,
in her turn, why they would not permit the dead to rest? To
others, who pressed for some account of her parents, she answered
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Seraphita by Honore de Balzac: will be to me less hard and long."
"With thee, with thee alone," replied the Man, "can I cross the awful
solitude without complaint."
"Together we will go to Heaven," she said.
The clouds gathered and formed a darksome dais. Suddenly the pair
found themselves kneeling beside a body which old David was guarding
from curious eyes, resolved to bury it himself.
Beyond those walls the first summer of the nineteenth century shone
forth in all its glory. The two lovers believed they heard a Voice in
the sun-rays. They breathed a celestial essence from the new-born
flowers. Holding each other by the hand, they said, "That illimitable
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