| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: with his horseshoe pin. At length Mademoiselle, ex-
hausted, turned her flushed, beautiful face to the win-
dow.
"Candy man," said she, "go away. When I
laugh Sidonie pulls my hair. I can but laugh while
you remain there."
"Here is a note for Mademoiselle," said Fe1ice,
coming to the window in the room.
"There is no justice," said the candy man, lift-
ing the handle of his cart and moving away.
Three yards he moved, and stopped. Loud shriek
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Through nine and twenty mingled years,
Half misconceived and half forgot,
So much I know and practise not.
Old are the words of wisdom, old
The counsels of the wise and bold:
To close the ears, to check the tongue,
To keep the pining spirit young;
To act the right, to say the true,
And to be kind whate'er you do.
Thus we across the modern stage
Follow the wise of every age;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Drama on the Seashore by Honore de Balzac: inclination of our souls was changed. We were both plunged into gloomy
reflections, saddened by the recital of a drama which explained the
sudden presentiment which had seized us on seeing Cambremer. Each of
us had enough knowledge of life to divine all that our guide had not
told of that triple existence. The anguish of those three beings rose
up before us as if we had seen it in a drama, culminating in that of
the father expiating his crime. We dared not look at the rock where
sat the fatal man who held the whole countryside in awe. A few clouds
dimmed the skies; mists were creeping up from the horizon. We walked
through a landscape more bitterly gloomy than any our eyes had ever
rested on, a nature that seemed sickly, suffering, covered with salty
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