| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: marriage, have no idea from what quarter this new influence has come
to change her, as it were in a moment."
"I expect the worst; nothing can surprise me now," said Ursula in a
pained voice. "In such extremities it is a comfort to feel that we
have done nothing to displease God."
"Submit, dear daughter, and do not seek to fathom the ways of
Providence," said the abbe.
"I shall not unjustly distrust the character of Monsieur de
Portenduere--"
"Why do you no longer call him Savinien?" asked the priest, who
detected a slight bitterness in Ursula's tone.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters from England by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft: fashion. After dinner the Duchess was pleased to stand until the
gentlemen rejoined us; of course, we must all stand. . . . The next
day we dined at the Lord Mayor's to meet the Ministers. This was a
most interesting affair. We had all the peculiar ceremonies which I
described to you last autumn, but in addition the party was most
distinguished, and we had speeches from Lord Lansdowne, Lord
Palmerston, Lord John, Lord Auckland, Sir George Grey, etc.
LETTER: To W.D.B.
LONDON, July 21, 1848
I was truly grieved that the last steamer should go to Boston
without a line from me, but I was in Yorkshire and you must forgive
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: asked eagerly.
"I - I don't know whether I ought to have come here, but at home - "
"Well, is anything the matter?" insisted Horn.
"Why, sir, I don't know; but the Professor - he is so still - he
doesn't answer."
Horn sprang from his chair. "Is he ill?" he asked.
"I don't know, sir. His room is locked - he never locked it before."
"And you are certain he is at home?"
"Yes, sir. I saw him during the night - and the key is in the lock
on the inside."
The commissioner had his hat in his hand when the colleague who was
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