| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: house. "She sympathized in my sorrow, and I cannot take part in her
joy!"
He blamed himself, justifying this girl-wife.
"She has no taint of hypocrisy, and is carried away by impulse,"
thought he, "and I want her to be like a Parisian woman."
Next day and the following days, in fact, for twenty days after,
Rodolphe spent all his time at the Bergmanns', watching Francesca
without having determined to watch her. In some souls admiration is
not independent of a certain penetration. The young Frenchman
discerned in Francesca the imprudence of girlhood, the true nature of
a woman as yet unbroken, sometimes struggling against her love, and at
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Burning Daylight by Jack London: "You sure ain't afraid of me?" he asked, with quick compunction.
"No." She smiled woefully. "Not of you, but of myself."
"You haven't taken my dare," he urged under this encouragement.
"Please, please," she begged. "We can never marry, so don't let
us discuss it."
"Then I copper your bet to lose." He was almost gay, now, for
success was coming faster than his fondest imagining. She liked
him, without a doubt; and without a doubt she liked him well
enough to let him hold her hand, well enough to be not repelled
by the nearness of him.
She shook her head. "No, it is impossible. You would lose your
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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: for the double ambition hidden in Fraisier's mind. Bold as a petty
provincial attorney, sharp, rough-spoken, and curt as he was, he felt
as captains feel before the decisive battle of a campaign. As he went
into the little drawing-room where Amelie was waiting for him, he felt
a slight perspiration breaking out upon his forehead and down his
back. Every sudorific hitherto employed had failed to produce this
result upon a skin which horrible diseases had left impervious. "Even
if I fail to make my fortune," said he to himself, "I shall recover.
Poulain said that if I could only perspire I should recover."
The Presidente came forward in her morning gown.
"Madame--" said Fraisier, stopping short to bow with the humility by
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