| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: to her to make him marry her.
Towards the close of 1815, Flore, who was then twenty-seven, had
reached the perfect development of her beauty. Plump and fresh, and
white as a Norman countrywoman, she was the ideal of what our
ancestors used to call "a buxom housewife." Her beauty, always that of
a handsome barmaid, though higher in type and better kept, gave her a
likeness to Mademoiselle George in her palmy days, setting aside the
latter's imperial dignity. Flore had the dazzling white round arms,
the ample modelling, the satiny textures of the skin, the alluring
though less rigidly correct outlines of the great actress. Her
expression was one of sweetness and tenderness; but her glance
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: from an upper perch to partake of half an apple. Cassandra was reading
out, in her high-pitched tones, an account of this creature's secluded
disposition and nocturnal habits. She saw Katharine and exclaimed:
"Here you are! Do prevent William from torturing this unfortunate
aye-aye."
"We thought we'd lost you," said William. He looked from one to the
other, and seemed to take stock of Denham's unfashionable appearance.
He seemed to wish to find some outlet for malevolence, but, failing
one, he remained silent. The glance, the slight quiver of the upper
lip, were not lost upon Katharine.
"William isn't kind to animals," she remarked. "He doesn't know what
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: long. De Coetlogon protested, as he did afterwards in writing,
against Knappe's claim: the Samoans were in a state of war; they
had territorial rights; it was monstrous to prevent them from
entering one of their own villages because a German trader kept the
store; and in case property suffered, a claim for compensation was
the proper remedy. Knappe argued that this was a question between
Germans and Samoans, in which de Coetlogon had nothing to see; and
that he must protect German property according to his instructions.
To which de Coetlogon replied that he was himself in the same
attitude to the property of the British; that he understood Knappe
to be intending hostilities against Laulii; that Laulii was
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