| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: fear alike obliged me to consent. A son of Doctor
Grierson's, be he what he pleased, must still be young, and
it was even probable he should be handsome; on more than
that, I felt I dared not reckon; and in moulding my mind
towards consent I dwelt the more carefully on these physical
attractions which I felt I might expect, and averted my eyes
from moral or intellectual considerations. We have a great
power upon our spirits; and as time passed I worked myself
into a frame of acquiescence, nay, and I began to grow
impatient for the hour. At night sleep forsook me; I sat all
day by the fire, absorbed in dreams, conjuring up the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac: tricolor plume, even the German peasants had recognized army surgeons,
a body of men of science and merit liked, for the most part, not only
in our own army but also in the countries invaded by our troops. At
this period many sons of good families taken from their medical
studies by the recent conscription law due to General Jourdan, had
naturally preferred to continue their studies on the battle-field
rather than be restricted to mere military duty, little in keeping
with their early education and their peaceful destinies. Men of
science, pacific yet useful, these young men did an actual good in the
midst of so much misery, and formed a bond of sympathy with other men
of science in the various countries through which the cruel
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: hot earth. Forward somewhere they were hammering. The girl said
nothing, but her profile was strained and anxious.
"I - if you have lost anything," I began, "I wish you would let me
try to help. Not that my own success is anything to boast of."
She hardly glanced at me. It was not flattering. "I have not been
robbed, if that is what you mean," she replied quietly. "I am
- perplexed. That is all."
There was nothing to say to that. I lifted my hat - the other
fellow's hat - and turned to go back to my car. Two or three members
of the train crew, including the conductor, were standing in the
shadow talking. And at that moment, from a farm-house near came the
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