| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: Monsieur Camusot to come and speak with him.
"Now," said he to Jacques Collin, "an end to all this! I want to know
your recipe for curing the Countess."
"Monsieur le Comte," said the convict very gravely, "I was, as you
know, sentenced to five years' penal servitude for forgery. But I love
my liberty.--This passion, like every other, had defeated its own end,
for lovers who insist on adoring each other too fondly end by
quarreling. By dint of escaping and being recaptured alternately, I
have served seven years on the hulks. So you have nothing to remit but
the added terms I earned in quod--I beg pardon, in prison. I have, in
fact, served my time, and till some ugly job can be proved against me,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: to you? Colonel Manly, Maria,--Miss Van Rough, brother.
MARIA
Her brother! [turns and sees Manly.] Oh! my
heart! the very gentleman I have been praising.
MANLY
The same amiable girl I saw this morning!
CHARLOTTE
Why, you look as if you were acquainted.
MANLY
I unintentionally intruded into this lady's presence
this morning, for which she was so good as to promise
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: Brandon is one of them. He was afraid of catching cold
I dare say, and invented this trick for getting out of it.
I would lay fifty guineas the letter was of his own writing."
"I have no doubt of it," replied Marianne.
"There is no persuading you to change your mind,
Brandon, I know of old," said Sir John, "when once you
are determined on anything. But, however, I hope you
will think better of it. Consider, here are the two Miss
Careys come over from Newton, the three Miss Dashwoods
walked up from the cottage, and Mr. Willoughby got up
two hours before his usual time, on purpose to go to Whitwell."
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