| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: with all his might. And the damsel, for her part, looks about
her as if not knowing what the trouble is. Confused, she goes
hither and thither, not wishing to go straight up to him. Then
he begins to call again: "Damsel, come this way, here!" And the
damsel guided toward him her soft-stepping palfrey. By this ruse
she made him think that she knew nothing of him and had never
seen him before; in so doing she was wise and courteous. When
she had come before him, she said: "Sir knight, what do you
desire that you call me so insistently?" "Ah," said he. "prudent
damsel, I have found myself in this wood by some mishap--I know
not what. For God's sake and your belief in Him, I pray you to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Simple Soul by Gustave Flaubert: left.
The following week they learned of Monsieur Bourais' death in an inn.
There were rumours of suicide, which were confirmed; doubts concerning
his integrity arose. Madame Aubain looked over her accounts and soon
discovered his numerous embezzlements; sales of wood which had been
concealed from her, false receipts, etc. Furthermore, he had an
illegitimate child, and entertained a friendship for "a person in
Dozule."
These base actions affected her very much. In March, 1853, she
developed a pain in her chest; her tongue looked as if it were coated
with smoke, and the leeches they applied did not relieve her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: paved with shillings. She quivered on occasion into the perception
of this and that one whom she would on the chance have just simply
liked to BE. Her conceit, her baffled vanity, was possibly
monstrous; she certainly often threw herself into a defiant
conviction that she would have done the whole thing much better.
But her greatest comfort, mostly, was her comparative vision of the
men; by whom I mean the unmistakeable gentlemen, for she had no
interest in the spurious or the shabby and no mercy at all for the
poor. She could have found a sixpence, outside, for an appearance
of want; but her fancy, in some directions so alert, had never a
throb of response for any sign of the sordid. The men she did
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