| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: and a householder, lowered his voice for the rest of the tale.
During it the other man laughed hoarsely.
Carol turned off on a side-street.
She passed Cy Bogart. He was humorously narrating some
achievement to a group which included Nat Hicks, Del Snafflin,
Bert Tybee the bartender, and A. Tennyson O'Hearn the
shyster lawyer. They were men far older than Cy but they
accepted him as one of their own, and encouraged him to
go on.
It was a week before she received from Fern a letter of
which this was a part:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: "I have been pretending, all my life; I have been dishonest;
it is you that have made me so!" Mr. Brand stood gazing at her,
and she went on, "Why should n't I be frivolous, if I want?
One has a right to be frivolous, if it 's one's nature. No, I don't
care for the great questions. I care for pleasure--for amusement.
Perhaps I am fond of wicked things; it is very possible!"
Mr. Brand remained staring; he was even a little pale,
as if he had been frightened. "I don't think you know what you
are saying!" he exclaimed.
"Perhaps not. Perhaps I am talking nonsense. But it is only with you
that I talk nonsense. I never do so with my cousin."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: you. My father gave me a heart, but you have taught it to beat.
The whole world may condemn me; what does it matter if I stand
acquitted in your eyes, for you have no right to think ill of me
for the faults which a tyrannous love has forced me to commit for
you! Do you think me an unnatural daughter? Oh! no, no one could
help loving such a dear kind father as ours. But how could I hide
the inevitable consequences of our miserable marriages from him?
Why did he allow us to marry when we did? Was it not his duty to
think for us and foresee for us? To-day I know he suffers as much
as we do, but how can it be helped? And as for comforting him, we
could not comfort him in the least. Our resignation would give
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