| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: more trouble. I'm sorry you've had such an unlucky partner."
"That's very ill-natured of you," said Godfrey, standing by her
without any sign of intended departure, "to be sorry you've danced
with me."
"Oh, no, sir, I don't mean to say what's ill-natured at all," said
Nancy, looking distractingly prim and pretty. "When gentlemen have
so many pleasures, one dance can matter but very little."
"You know that isn't true. You know one dance with you matters
more to me than all the other pleasures in the world."
It was a long, long while since Godfrey had said anything so direct
as that, and Nancy was startled. But her instinctive dignity and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: The Russians are ten minutes' march from here; they have horses; we
are going up to their first battery for a pair."
"But the sentinels?"
"One of us three--" he interrupted himself, and turned to the aide-de-
camp. "You will come, Hippolyte, won't you?"
Hippolyte nodded.
"One of us," continued the major, "will take care of the sentinel.
Besides, perhaps they are asleep too, those cursed Russians."
"Forward! major, you're a brave one! But you'll give me a lift on your
carriage?" said the grenadier.
"Yes, if you don't leave your skin up there-- If I fall, Hippolyte,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells: rights and wrongs, or superiorities and inferiorities; it is a
catalogue of differences between two people linked in a relationship
that constantly becomes more intolerant of differences.
This is how we stood to each other, and none of it was clear to
either of us at the outset. To begin with, I found myself reserving
myself from her, then slowly apprehending a jarring between our
minds and what seemed to me at first a queer little habit of
misunderstanding in her. . . .
It did not hinder my being very fond of her. . . .
Where our system of reservation became at once most usual and most
astounding was in our personal relations. It is not too much to say
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