| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: ashore now, and let up. You'll kill yourself."
Reed turned to him, a wild light in his eye.
"Break it!" he pleaded. "You're ruining me. I've got all my money
in that mill."
"Well," said Orde, "we've got a lot of money in our logs too. You
haven't treated us quite right."
Reed glanced frantically toward the flood up stream.
"Come," said Orde, taking him gently by the arm. "There's no reason
you and I shouldn't get along together all right. Maybe we're both
a little hard-headed. Let's talk it over."
He led the old man ashore, and out of earshot of the rivermen.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Deserted Woman by Honore de Balzac: utterance which passes current as a witticism.
A few rich townspeople have crept into the miniature Faubourg Saint-
Germain, thanks to their money or their aristocratic leanings. But
despite their forty years, the circle still say of them, "Young So-
and-so has sound opinions," and of such do they make deputies. As a
rule, the elderly spinsters are their patronesses, not without
comment.
Finally, in this exclusive little set include two or three
ecclesiastics, admitted for the sake of their cloth, or for their wit;
for these great nobles find their own society rather dull, and
introduce the bourgeois element into their drawing-rooms, as a baker
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: "That is not, however, your real reason for not discussing them,"
said the Man of Wrath; "they simply do not interest you.
Or it may be, that you do not consider your female friends'
opinions <173> worth listening to, for you certainly display an
astonishing thirst for information when male politicians are present.
I have seen a pretty young woman, hardly in her twenties, sitting a whole
evening drinking in the doubtful wisdom of an elderly political star,
with every appearance of eager interest. He was a bimetallic star,
and was giving her whole pamphletsful of information."
"She wanted to make up to him for some reason," said Irais, "and got
him to explain his hobby to her, and he was silly enough to be taken in.
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