| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: her to discover the philosopher's stone. Some even more envenomed
scandals drove her to a curiosity that was greater than Psyche's. She
reported them in tears to Paz.
"When I want to injure a woman," she said in conclusion, "I don't
calumniate her; I don't declare that some one magnetizes her to get
stones out of her, but I say plainly that she is humpbacked, and I
prove it. Why do you compromise me in this way?"
Paz maintained a cruel silence. Madame Chapuzot was not long in
discovering the name and title of Comte Paz; then she heard certain
positive facts at the hotel Laginski: for instance, that Paz was a
bachelor, and had never been known to have a daughter, alive or dead,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: wilderness.
CH2 1:4 But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to
the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for
it at Jerusalem.
CH2 1:5 Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the
son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the LORD: and
Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.
CH2 1:6 And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the
LORD, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a
thousand burnt offerings upon it.
CH2 1:7 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: season the business of the little shop almost ceased, and one
Saturday morning Mr. Ramy proposed that the sisters should lock up
early and go with him for a sail down the bay in one of the Coney
Island boats.
Ann Eliza saw the light in Evelina's eye and her resolve was
instantly taken.
"I guess I won't go, thank you kindly; but I'm sure my sister
will be happy to."
She was pained by the perfunctory phrase with which Evelina
urged her to accompany them; and still more by Mr. Ramy's silence.
"No, I guess I won't go," she repeated, rather in answer to
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