| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: books; a piano filled an angle of the room. She sat down upon a divan,
drew Luigi to her side, and said, in a caressing voice, her hand in
his,--
"You have good taste."
"Those words make me happy," he replied.
"But let me see all," said Ginevra, to whom Luigi had made a mystery
of the adornment of the rooms.
They entered the nuptial chamber, fresh and white as a virgin.
"Oh! come away," said Luigi, smiling.
"But I wish to see all."
And the imperious Ginevra looked at each piece of furniture with the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad: incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes,
and crazy of aspect as if abandoned forever by some nomad
tribe of fishermen now gone to the other end of the ocean;
for there was no sign of human habitation as far as the eye
could reach. To the left a group of barren islets,
suggesting ruins of stone walls, towers, and blockhouses,
had its foundations set in a blue sea that itself looked solid,
so still and stable did it lie below my feet; even the track
of light from the westering sun shone smoothly, without that
animated glitter which tells of an imperceptible ripple.
And when I turned my head to take a parting glance at the tug
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: He, being in the vaward, plac'd behind
With purpose to relieve and follow them,
Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.
Hence grew the general wreck and massacre;
Enclosed were they with their enemies:
A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin's grace,
Thrust Talbot with a spear into the back;
Whom all France with their chief assembled strength
Durst not presume to look once in the face.
BEDFORD.
Is Talbot slain? then I will slay myself,
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