| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: quenchable, or observed anything stick in your throat that
required washing down."
And so we close the scene on the privy council of that period.
CHAPTER VI.
For this are all these warriors come,
To hear an idle tale;
And o'er our death-accustom'd arms
Shall silly tears prevail?
HENRY MACKENZIE.
ON the evening of the day when the Lord Keeper and his daughter
were saved from such imminent peril, two strangers were seated in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: old man thought he saw in this the finger of God, and although he had
forced the duke to pass his word, he was seized with such fear, as his
thoughts reverted to the violence of that ungovernable nature, that he
returned upon his steps when, on reaching the summit of the hill above
Ourscamp, he saw the smoke of his own chimneys among the trees that
enclosed his home. Then, changing his mind once more, the thought of
the illegitimate relationship decided him; that consideration might
have great influence on the mind of his master. Once decided,
Beauvouloir had confidence in the chances and changes of life; it
might be that the duke would die before the marriage; besides, there
were many examples of such marriage; a peasant girl in Dauphine,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: about yourself?"
"About myself. You say you're not tired: well, I am.
Horribly tired . . ."
In an instant she was all tender anxiety. "Oh, I've
seen it coming on, Newland! You've been so wickedly
overworked--"
"Perhaps it's that. Anyhow, I want to make a break--"
"A break? To give up the law?"
"To go away, at any rate--at once. On a long trip,
ever so far off--away from everything--"
He paused, conscious that he had failed in his attempt
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