| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say: So my first
impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had
gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate
road-house next door.
And then came that disconcerting ride. We hadn't reached West Egg
village before Gatsby began leaving his elegant sentences unfinished
and slapping himself indecisively on the knee of his caramel-colored
suit.
"Look here, old sport," he broke out surprisingly. "What's your opinion of
me, anyhow?" A little overwhelmed, I began the generalized evasions which
that question deserves.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: bills at a twelvemonth."
"No. Settled at once," returned Vidal or Porchon.
"Bills at nine months?" asked the publisher or author, who evidently
was selling his book.
"No, my dear fellow, twelve months," returned one of the firm of
booksellers' agents.
There was a pause.
"You are simply cutting my throat!" said the visitor.
"But in a year's time shall we have placed a hundred copies of
Leonide?" said the other voice. "If books went off as fast as the
publishers would like, we should be millionaires, my good sir; but
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: tell you."
"We have done nothing yet-- Harness the horses. Take these ropes."
"They are not long enough."
"Grenadier, turn over those sleepers, and take their shawls and linen,
to eke out."
"Tiens! that's one dead," said the grenadier, stripping the first man
he came to. "Bless me! what a joke, they are all dead!"
"All?"
"Yes, all; seems as if horse-meat must be indigestible if eaten with
snow."
The words made Philippe tremble. The cold was increasing.
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