| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: a' set up to be apotecaries. Why? What do I ken? They'll be just the
way God made them, I suppose. But I think a man would be a gomeral
that didnae give his attention to the same."
And here, the luckie coming back, he turned from me as if with
impatience to renew their former conversation. The lady had branched
some while before from Alan's stomach to the case of a goodbrother of
her own in Aberlady, whose last sickness and demise she was describing
at extraordinary length. Sometimes it was merely dull, sometimes both
dull and awful, for she talked with unction. The upshot was that I
fell in a deep muse, looking forth of the window on the road, and
scarce marking what I saw. Presently had any been looking they might
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: Like the proceedings of a drunken brain,
Full of respects, yet nought at all respecting,
In hand with all things, nought at all effecting.
Here kennel'd in a brake she finds a hound, 9l3
And asks the weary caitiff for his master,
And there another licking of his wound,
Gainst venom'd sores the only sovereign plaster; 916
And here she meets another sadly scowling,
To whom she speaks, and he replies with howling.
When he hath ceas'd his ill-resounding noise,
Another flap-mouth'd mourner, black and grim, 920
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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: will pay you well, and Sylvie too, for your trouble."
"My daughters told you that they were coming, didn't they,
Christophe? Go again to them, and I will give you five francs.
Tell them that I am not feeling well, that I should like to kiss
them both and see them once again before I die. Tell them that,
but don't alarm them more than you can help."
Rastignac signed to Christophe to go, and the man went.
"They will come before long," the old man went on. "I know them
so well. My tender-hearted Delphine! If I am going to die, she
will feel it so much! And so will Nasie. I do not want to die;
they will cry if I die; and if I die, dear Eugene, I shall not
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