| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: "I am well, monsieur."
"Perhaps you were going out?"
"Not at all."
"You expected some one?"
"No one."
"If my visit is indiscreet you must blame Monsieur le marquis. I had
already accepted your mysterious denial, when he himself came up, and
introduced me into the sanctuary."
"Monsieur de Listomere is not in my confidence on this point. It is
not always prudent to put a husband in possession of certain secrets."
The firm and gentle tones in which the marquise said these words, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: You were never more mistaken. I have been all the more particular."
"Oh, no," said Clifford, honestly distressed. "I never thought
such a thing as that."
"Are you very sure? I am convinced that your father does,
and your sisters. They say to each other that here I am on my
good behavior, but that over there--married by the left hand--
I associate with light women. "
"Oh, no," cried Clifford, energetically, "they don't say such things
as that to each other!"
"If they think them they had better say them," the Baroness rejoined.
"Then they can be contradicted. Please contradict that whenever you hear it,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: preponderating masculine element. This evening Vautrin had
noticed Eugene's abstractedness, and stayed in the room, though
he had seemed to be in a hurry to finish his dinner and go. All
through the talk afterwards he had kept out of the sight of the
law student, who quite believed that Vautrin had left the room.
He now took up his position cunningly in the sitting-room instead
of going when the last boarders went. He had fathomed the young
man's thoughts, and felt that a crisis was at hand. Rastignac
was, in fact, in a dilemma, which many another young man must
have known.
Mme. de Nucingen might love him, or might merely be playing with
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