| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: his suspecting that sinister mutual connivances might spring, under
the roof of his companions, from unnatural sociabilities. At the
same time he fully recognised that as a source of anxiety, not to
say of expense, his future mother-in law would have weighted them
more by accompanying their steps than by giving her hostess, in the
interest of the tendency they considered that they never mentioned,
equivalent pledges as to the tea-caddy and the jam-pot. These were
the questions--these indeed the familiar commodities--that he had
now to put into the scales; and his betrothed had in consequence,
during her holiday, the odd and yet pleasant and almost languid
sense of an anticlimax. She had become conscious of an
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: purple spiders, which saluted the first one and said:
"The web is finished, O King, and the strangers are
our prisoners."
Dorothy did not like the looks of these spiders at
all. They had big heads, sharp claws, small eyes and
fuzzy hair all over their purple bodies.
"They look wicked," she whispered to Ozma. "What
shall we do?"
Ozma gazed upon the spiders with a serious face.
"What is your object in making us prisoners?" she
inquired.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: registrar to the court is worth a hundred thousand francs. Few places
are more coveted in the administration. Fraisier, as a justice of the
peace, with the head physician of a hospital for his friend, would
make a rich marriage himself and a good match for Dr. Poulain. Each
would lend a hand to each.
Night set its leaden seal upon the plans made by the sometime attorney
of Mantes, and a formidable scheme sprouted up, a flourishing scheme,
fertile in harvests of gain and intrigue. La Cibot was the hinge upon
which the whole matter turned; and for this reason, any rebellion on
the part of the instrument must be at once put down; such action on
her part was quite unexpected; but Fraisier had put forth all the
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