| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: more melancholy.
"Rather say that you have a new love."
"Not so; I speak frankly to you. No object affects me; and I
even feel here, at the bottom of my heart, something which speaks
for you. But in fifteen days, as you know, or as you do not
know, this fatal campaign is to open. I shall be fearfully
preoccupied with my outfit. Then I must make a journey to see my
family, in the lower part of Brittany, to obtain the sum
necessary for my departure."
Porthos observed a last struggle between love and avarice.
"And as," continued he, "the duchess whom you saw at the church
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: dread it, almost as much, I imagine, as Somers did. She took her
privileges all in Anna's name, she exercised her authority quite as
Lady Chichele's proxy. She went to the very limit. 'Anna
Chichele,' she said actually in his presence, 'is a fortunate woman.
She has all kinds of cleverness, and she has her tall son. I have
only one little talent, and I have no tall son.' Now it was not in
nature that she could have had a son as tall as Somers, nor was that
desire in her eyes. All civilization implies a good deal of farce,
but this was a poor refuge, a cheap device; I was glad when it fell
away from her sincerity, when the day came on which she looked into
my fire and said simply, 'An attachment like ours has no terms.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: first day of our new life in a strange place--and the
Beach we both love--hadn't you just as leave go there,
Jim?"
"No. The waiters will stare at us, and hear us
talk----"
"We can have our meals served in our room.
"This is better," he insisted. "I want to spend
one day here alone with you, before we go--just to feel
that you're all mine. You see, if I walk in here and
own the place, I'll know that better than any other
way. I've just set my heart on it, Kiddo--what's the
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