| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: door beside the fireplace suggested an inner room beyond.
The brief inventory was soon made by the personage introduced into
their midst under such terrible auspices. It was with a compassionate
expression that he turned to the two women; he looked benevolently at
them, and seemed, at least, as much embarrassed as they. But the
strange silence did not last long, for presently the stranger began to
understand. He saw how inexperienced, how helpless (mentally
speaking), the two poor creatures were, and he tried to speak gently.
"I am far from coming as an enemy, citoyennes----" he began. Then he
suddenly broke off and went on, "Sisters, if anything should happen to
you, believe me, I shall have no share in it. I have come to ask a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: left hand to her forehead.
"Well, then," she heard Lingard's forcible murmur, "well, then,
Mrs. Travers, it must be done to-night."
One may be true, fearless, and wise, and yet catch one's breath
before the simple finality of action. Mrs. Travers caught her
breath: "To-night! To-night!" she whispered. D'Alcacer's dark and
misty silhouette became more blurred. He had seen her sign and
had retreated deeper within the Cage.
"Yes, to-night," affirmed Lingard. "Now, at once, within the
hour, this moment," he murmured, fiercely, following Mrs. Travers
in her recoiling movement. She felt her arm being seized swiftly.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain: that Southern disease if some one will give it a start. It already
has a start, in fact. I have been personally acquainted with over
eighty-four thousand persons who, at one time or another in their lives,
have served for a year or two on the staffs of our multitudinous
governors, and through that fatality have been generals temporarily,
and colonels temporarily, and judge-advocates temporarily; but I
have known only nine among them who could be hired to let the title
go when it ceased to be legitimate. I know thousands and thousands
of governors who ceased to be governors away back in the last century;
but I am acquainted with only three who would answer your letter
if you failed to call them "Governor" in it. I know acres and acres
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