| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: be a "'prentice good," and marry
"The bailiff's daughter dear
That dwelt at Islington,"
without tarnishing, as he would have done on the Continent, the
scutcheon of his ancestors. That which has saved England from a
central despotism, such as crushed, during the eighteenth century,
every nation on the Continent, is the very same peculiarity which
makes the advent of the masses to a share in political power safe
and harmless; namely, the absence of caste, or rather (for there is
sure to be a moral fact underlying and causing every political fact)
the absence of that wicked pride which perpetuates caste; forbidding
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac: vexation.
"That young man is displaying a very fine diamond," the stranger
remarked to the Colonel.
"Splendid," he replied. "The man is the Baron Martial de la Roche-
Hugon, one of my most intimate friends."
"I have to thank you for telling me his name," she went on; "he seems
an agreeable man."
"Yes, but he is rather fickle."
"He seems to be on the best terms with the Comtesse de Vaudremont?"
said the lady, with an inquiring look at the Colonel.
"On the very best."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: on this shore, while the island on which it belongs is
under water yonder. Did Coo-ee-oh come here in the boat
to meet the Flatheads before the island was sunk, or
afterward?"
No one could answer that question, of course; but
while they pondered the matter three young men advanced
from the line of trees, and rather timidly bowed to the
strangers.
"Who are you, and where did you come from?" inquired
the Wizard.
"We are Skeezers," answered one of them, "and our
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