| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: consistent with her safe keeping. And with this intimation of
her pleasure the council was dismissed.
Never was more anxious and ready way made for "my Lord of
Leicester," than as he passed through the crowded anterooms to go
towards the river-side, in order to attend her Majesty to her
barge--never was the voice of the ushers louder, to "make room,
make room for the noble Earl"--never were these signals more
promptly and reverently obeyed--never were more anxious eyes
turned on him to obtain a glance of favour, or even of mere
recognition, while the heart of many a humble follower throbbed
betwixt the desire to offer his congratulations, and the fear of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from At the Sign of the Cat & Racket by Honore de Balzac: her the first lessons of experience. She determined to restrict
herself bravely within the round of duty, hoping that by this generous
conduct she might sooner or later win back her husband's love. But it
was not so. When Sommervieux, fired with work, came in from his
studio, Augustine did not put away her work so quickly but that the
painter might find his wife mending the household linen, and his own,
with all the care of a good housewife. She supplied generously and
without a murmur the money needed for his lavishness; but in her
anxiety to husband her dear Theodore's fortune, she was strictly
economical for herself and in certain details of domestic management.
Such conduct is incompatible with the easy-going habits of artists,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: moaning of the wind through the branches of the trees, and the
rustling of the leaves as it caught them up and whirled them in
all directions. So dense was the darkness that it was at first
impossible for Ivan to see more than a few feet beyond where he
stood.
After a time, however, his sight becoming accustomed to the
gloom, he was enabled to see for a considerable distance. The
plow and his other farming implements stood just where he had
placed them. He could see also the opposite corner of the house.
He looked in every direction, but no one was in sight, and he
thought to himself that his imagination must have played him some
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