| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: "best dressed" women in Paris, which means a great deal more.
She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see
what he would say, and to "teach him a lesson!" The truth is,
that she was ravishing in every respect, and that she distinguished
the difference between a bonnet from Gerard and one from Herbaut
in the most marvellous way.
Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt
that he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most,
beheld wings sprouting on Cosette.
Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet,
a woman would have recognized the fact that she had no mother.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: through life the task of sending a pure soul to heaven, was not that a
better thing than a tardy repentance? was it not, in truth, the only
spotless prayer which she could lift to God?
So, when this daughter, when her Marie-Juana-Pepita (she would fain
have given her all the saints in the calendar as guardians), when this
dear little creature was granted to her, she became possessed of so
high an idea of the dignity of motherhood that she entreated vice to
grant her a respite. She made herself virtuous and lived in solitude.
No more fetes, no more orgies, no more love. All joys, all fortunes
were centred now in the cradle of her child. The tones of that infant
voice made an oasis for her soul in the burning sands of her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart: candle on a string, but--it was extinguished from below."
The reporters were busily removing the table and chairs from the
door.
"If you have a rope handy," one of them said, "I will go down the
shaft."
(Dal says that all reporters should have been policemen, and that
all policemen are natural newsgatherers.)
"The cage appears to be stuck, half-way between the floors," Jim
said. "They are cutting through the door in the kitchen below."
They opened the door then and cautiously peered down, but there
was nothing to be seen. I touched Jim gingerly on the arm.
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