| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: Pale with joy and palpitating, the timid creature showed him, by the
light of the lamp, Saint-Vallier lying in a bed about ten feet from
her. We may well believe their burning silent kisses echoed only in
their hearts.
CHAPTER III
THE ROBBERY OF THE JEWELS OF THE DUKE OF BAVARIA
The next day, about nine in the morning, as Louis XI. was leaving his
chapel after hearing mass, he found Maitre Cornelius on his path.
"Good luck to you, crony," he said, shoving up his cap in his hasty
way.
"Sire, I would willingly pay a thousand gold crowns if I could have a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: painful to themselves, obtained to their several states salvation; and
in the other are those who for the very irksomeness of the process
choose not to be taught, but rather to pass away their days in
pleasures unseasonable--nature's abjects these.[20] Not theirs is it
to obey either laws or good instruction;[21] nay, how should they, who
never toil, discover what a good man ought to be?--in other words,
wisdom and justice are alike beyond their power. Subject to
indiscipline, they have many a fault to find with him who is well
educated.
[20] Lit. "the sorriest of mankind these by nature."
[21] Or, "virtuous argument"; {logois agathois}, lit. "good words."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: At this humble portal he knocked; the windows of the little
chalet were open, and the white curtains, behind the flower-pots,
were fluttering as he had seen them before. The door was
opened by a neat young woman, who informed him very promptly
that Madame and Mademoiselle had left Blanquais a couple
of hours earlier. They had gone to Paris--yes, very suddenly,
taking with them but little luggage, and they had left her--
she had the honor of being the femme de chambre of ces dames--
to put up their remaining possessions and follow as soon as possible.
On Bernard's expressing surprise and saying that he had supposed
them to be fixed at the sea-side for the rest of the season,
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