| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: nations conducted by the patent artifices of a Becker.
The discussion of the morning, the silent menace and defiance of
the voyage to Laulii, might have set the best-natured by the ears.
But Knappe and de Coetlogon took their difference in excellent
part. On the morrow, November 16th, they sat down together with
Blacklock in conference. The English consul introduced his
colleagues, who shook hands. If Knappe were dead-weighted with the
inheritance of Becker, Blacklock was handicapped by reminiscences
of Leary; it is the more to the credit of this inexperienced man
that he should have maintained in the future so excellent an
attitude of firmness and moderation, and that when the crash came,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: had almost identified himself, as it were, with his mother, and with
his suddenly developed powers of imagination he saw the weariness and
exhaustion under the red color, and constantly found reasons for
taking some shorter walk.
So happy couples coming to Saint-Cyr, then the Petite Courtille of
Tours, and knots of folk out for their evening walk along the "dike,"
saw a pale, thin figure dressed in black, a woman with a worn yet
bright face, gliding like a shadow along the terraces. Great suffering
cannot be concealed. The vinedresser's household had grown quiet also.
Sometimes the laborer and his wife and children were gathered about
the door of their cottage, while Annette was washing linen at the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw: I grant I never saw a goddess go:
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Take this as a sample of the sort of compliment from which she was
never for a moment safe with Shakespear. Bear in mind that she was
not a comedian; that the Elizabethan fashion of treating brunettes as
ugly woman must have made her rather sore on the subject of her
complexion; that no human being, male or female, can conceivably enjoy
being chaffed on that point in the fourth couplet about the perfumes;
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