| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: thieves! My word in passed, and I'll stick to it. I said long syne to
your kinswoman that I would stumble at no risk. Do ye mind of that? -
the night Red Colin fell, it was. No more I will, then. Here I stop.
Prestongrange promised me my life: if he's to be mansworn, here I'll
have to die."
"Aweel aweel," said Alan.
All this time we had seen or heard no more of our pursuers. In truth
we had caught them unawares; their whole party (as I was to learn
afterwards) had not yet reached the scene; what there was of them was
spread among the bents towards Gillane. It was quite an affair to call
them in and bring them over, and the boat was making speed. They were
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Honorine
Gouraud, General, Baron
Cousin Pons
Keller, Adolphe
The Middle Classes
Cesar Birotteau
Matifat, Mademoiselle
Cesar Birotteau
The Firm of Nucingen
Montriveau, General Marquis Armand de
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: separation between us, and I would have lost the love of the one
woman in the world I worship, of the only woman who has ever stirred
love within me. Last night it would have been quite impossible. She
would have turned from me in horror . . . in horror and in contempt.
LORD GORING. Is Lady Chiltern as perfect as all that?
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. Yes; my wife is as perfect as all that.
LORD GORING. [Taking off his left-hand glove.] What a pity! I beg
your pardon, my dear fellow, I didn't quite mean that. But if what
you tell me is true, I should like to have a serious talk about life
with Lady Chiltern.
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. It would be quite useless.
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