| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: SALOME. Vous avez jure, Herode.
HERODIAS. Oui, vous avez jure. Tout le monde vous a entendu. Vous
avez jure devant tout le monde.
HERODIAS. Taisez-vous. Ce n'est pas e vous que je parle.
HERODIAS. Ma fille a bien raison de demander la tete de cet homme.
Il a vomi des insultes contre moi. Il a dit des choses monstrueuses
contre moi. On voit qu'elle aime beaucoup sa mere. Ne cedez pas,
ma fille. Il a jure, il a jure.
HERODE. Taisez-vous. Ne me parlez pas . . . Voyons, Salome, il
faut etre raisonnable, n'est-ce pas? N'est-ce pas qu'il faut etre
raisonnable? Je n'ai jamais ete dur envers vous. Je vous ai
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: and became insolvent; then she entered into service, sinking lower
and lower, from housekeeper down to maid-of-all-work,--never long
retaining a place, though nothing decided against her character was
ever alleged. She was considered sober, honest, and peculiarly
quiet in her ways; still nothing prospered with her. And so she
had dropped into the workhouse, from which Mr. J---- had taken her,
to be placed in charge of the very house which she had rented as
mistress in the first year of her wedded life.
Mr. J---- added that he had passed an hour alone in the unfurnished
room which I had urged him to destroy, and that his impressions of
dread while there were so great, though he had neither heard nor
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: - Do I think these people know the peculiar look they have? - I
cannot say; I hope not; I am afraid they would never forgive me, if
they did. The worst of it is, the trick is catching; when one
meets one of these fellows, he feels a tendency to the same
manifestation. The Professor tells me there is a muscular slip, a
dependence of the PLATYSMA MYOIDES, which is called the RISORIUS
SANTORINI.
- Say that once more, - exclaimed the young fellow mentioned above.
The Professor says there is a little fleshy slip called Santorini's
laughing muscle. I would have it cut out of my face, if I were
born with one of those constitutional grins upon it. Perhaps I am
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