| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: these puzzling stiff-necked strangers.
After these visits, Scarlett had no desire to see the Tarletons.
Now that the four boys were gone, the house burned and the family
cramped in the overseer's cottage, she could not bring herself to
go. But Suellen and Carreen begged and Melanie said it would be
unneighborly not to call and welcome Mr. Tarleton back from the
war, so one Sunday they went.
This was the worst of all.
As they drove up by the ruins of the house, they saw Beatrice
Tarleton dressed in a worn riding habit, a crop under her arm,
sitting on the top rail of the fence about the paddock, staring
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: a close scrutiny.
"And even then," he added, "I must see Fendant first. He ought to
deposit some books with me. You aren't worth much" (turning to
Lucien); "you are living with Coralie, and your furniture has been
attached."
Lousteau, watching Lucien, saw him take up his bills, and dash out
into the street. "He is the devil himself!" exclaimed the poet. For
several seconds he stood outside gazing at the shop front. The whole
place was so pitiful, that a passer-by could not see it without
smiling at the sight, and wondering what kind of business a man could
do among those mean, dirty shelves of ticketed books.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: or the narrow orifice, broken in the rock by the dynamite, had been
recently stopped up. James Starr and his companions were prisoners
in New Aberfoyle.
CHAPTER IX THE FIRE-MAIDENS
A WEEK after the events just related had taken place, James Starr's
friends had become very anxious. The engineer had disappeared,
and no reason could be brought forward to explain his absence.
They learnt, by questioning his servant, that he had embarked
at Granton Pier. But from that time there were no traces
of James Starr. Simon Ford's letter had requested secrecy,
and he had said nothing of his departure for the Aberfoyle mines.
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