| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: rest of the form in a loose robe of cloudy white. It began
sleeking its long, yellow hair, which fell over its shoulders; its
eyes were not turned toward me, but to the door; it seemed
listening, watching, waiting. The shadow of the shade in the
background grew darker; and again I thought I beheld the eyes
gleaming out from the summit of the shadow,--eyes fixed upon that
shape.
As if from the door, though it did not open, there grew out another
shape, equally distinct, equally ghastly,--a man's shape, a young
man's. It was in the dress of the last century, or rather in a
likeness of such dress (for both the male shape and the female,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: permission to go to Paris. They do not know my address, and I
expect there are letters from my father waiting for me. I have no
doubt he is concerned; I ought to answer him."
"Go, my friend," she said; "but be back early." I went straight
to Prudence.
"Come," said I, without beating about the bush, "tell me frankly,
where are Marguerite's horses?"
"Sold."
"The shawl?"
"Sold."
"The diamonds?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: But, alas! instead of being born in a region of gorse and moor, in the
midst of an arid nature of hard and angular shapes, such as all great
painters have given as backgrounds to their Virgins, Gabrielle lived
in a rich and fertile valley. Beauvouloir could not destroy the
harmonious grouping of the native woods, the graceful upspringing of
the wild flowers, the cool softness of the grassy slopes, the love
expressed in the intertwining growth of the clustering plants. Such
ever-living poesies have a language heard, rather than understood by
the poor girl, who yielded to vague misery among the shadows. Across
the misty ideas suggested by her long study of this beautiful
landscape, observed at all seasons and through all the variations of a
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