| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: "Well, never mind; you shall not be made to pay anything this time.
Adieu, my darling."
"She is an insolent woman," said du Tillet, picking up the flowers
that had fallen on the carpet. "You ought," he said to his wife, "to
study Madame de Vandenesse. I'd like to see you before the world as
insolent and overbearing as your sister has just been here. You have a
silly, bourgeois air which I detest."
Eugenie raised her eyes to heaven as her only answer.
"Ah ca, madame! what have you both been talking of?" said the banker,
after a pause, pointing to the flowers. "What has happened to make
your sister so anxious all of a sudden to go to your opera-box?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: combine ourselves together into a civill Body Politick,
for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance
of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof do enact,
constitute, and frame, such just and equall Laws, Ordinances,
Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time,
as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the
Generall Good of the Colonie; unto which we promise
all due Submission and Obedience.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names
at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Raigne of our
Sovereigne Lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: procured him in the Highlands the nickname of Gillespie Grumach
(or the grim), was less perceptible when he looked downward,
which perhaps was one cause of his having adopted that habit.
In person, he was tall and thin, but not without that dignity of
deportment and manners, which became his high rank. Something
there was cold in his address, and sinister in his look, although
he spoke and behaved with the usual grace of a man of such
quality. He was adored by his own clan, whose advancement he had
greatly studied, although he was in proportion disliked by the
Highlanders of other septs, some of whom he had already stripped
of their possessions, while others conceived themselves in danger
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