| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac: "Now that I am one of the family, I have the right to concern myself
in its affairs," he said, with a strange, excited expression of face.
He left the room precipitately, that he might not show a joy which
contrasted too cruelly with the sorrow of his master. Anselme was not
actually happy at the failure, but love is such an egoist! Even
Cesarine felt within her heart an emotion that counteracted her bitter
grief.
"Now that we have got so far," whispered Pillerault to Constance,
"shall we strike the last blow?"
Madame Birotteau let a sign of grief rather than of acquiescence
escape her.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: and sound? He must be so adroit, this chauffeur of chauffeurs, he
must handle his machine with such perfection of eye and hand, that he
knew, no doubt, how to escape from every situation. Fortunately the
Wisconsin authorities had taken such precautions that the road would
be clear except for contesting automobiles. But what right had this
machine among them!
And what said the racers themselves, who, warned by telephone, had to
sheer aside from the road in their struggle for the grand prize? By
their estimate, this amazing vehicle was going at least one hundred
and thirty miles an hour. Fast as was their speed, it shot by them at
such a rate that they could hardly make out even the shape of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: "Oh, I have often seen Mr. Gordon Wright alone," said Captain
Lovelock--"that is, alone with Miss Vivian. That 's what the old
lady likes; she can't have too much of that."
The young girl, poised for an instant in one of her pretty attitudes,
looked at him from head to foot.
"Well, I call that scandalous! Do you mean that she wants to make a match?"
"I mean that the young man has six thousand a year."
"It 's no matter what he has--six thousand a year is n't much!
And we don't do things in that way in our country.
We have n't those horrid match-making arrangements that you
have in your dreadful country. American mothers are not like
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