| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: mental or spiritual standard of even the most mediocre of decent
citizens.
If Herbert Thorne were to suffer the just punishment for his deed
of doubly blind jealousy, then it was not only his own life, a life
full of gracious promise, that would be ruined, but the happiness of
his delicate, sweet-faced wife, who was doubtless still in blessed
ignorance of what had happened. And still one other would be dragged
down by this tragedy; a respected, upright man would bow his white
hairs in disgrace. Thorne's father-in-law could not escape the
scandal and his own share in the responsibility for it. And to a
veteran officer, bred in the exaggerated social ethics of his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac: the emigration; she was related to the family, distantly it is true,
but the connection was close enough to allow her to introduce Emile to
the house. She, poor woman, foresaw the future. She knew that when she
died her son would lose both mother and father, a thought which made
death doubly bitter, so she tried to interest others in him. She
encouraged the liking that sprang up between Emile and the eldest
daughter of the house of Troisville; but while the liking was
exceedingly strong on the young lady's part, a marriage was out of the
question. It was a romance on the pattern of Paul et Virginie. Mme.
Blondet did what she could to teach her son to look to the
Troisvilles, to found a lasting attachment on a children's game of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: The Middle Classes
Dudley, Lord
The Lily of the Valley
The Thirteen
Another Study of Woman
A Daughter of Eve
Esgrignon, Victurnien, Comte (then Marquis d')
Jealousies of a Country Town
Letters of Two Brides
The Secrets of a Princess
Cousin Betty
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