| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: wonderfully prospered. There's a great deal in that text
'Honesty is
the best'--but no, that's not from the Bible, after all, is it?
Wait a moment; there is something of that kind, I know."
"May I light a cigar, father," said Harold, turning away to hide
a smile,
"while you are remembering the text?"
"Yes, certainly," answered the elder man, rather shortly; "you
know
I don't dislike the smell. But it is a wasteful, useless habit,
and therefore I have never practised it. Nothing useless is
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: Waterloo.
Bartolomeo di Piombo had bought, for the very moderate sum which
Madame Mere, the Emperor's mother, had paid him for his estates in
Corsica, the old mansion of the Portenduere family, in which he had
made no changes. Lodged, usually, at the cost of the government, he
did not occupy this house until after the catastrophe of
Fontainebleau. Following the habits of simple persons of strict
virtue, the baron and his wife gave no heed to external splendor;
their furniture was that which they bought with the mansion. The grand
apartments, lofty, sombre, and bare, the wide mirrors in gilded frames
that were almost black, the furniture of the period of Louis XIV. were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: KING EDWARD.
Well, jest on, brothers; I can tell you both,
Her suit is granted for her husband's lands.
[Enter a Nobleman.]
NOBLEMAN.
My gracious lord, Henry your foe is taken,
And brought your prisoner to your palace gate.
KING EDWARD.
See that he be convey'd unto the Tower.--
And go we, brothers, to the man that took him,
To question of his apprehension.--
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