| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: revenge, had added to Emilie's pride, and increased her self-
confidence. Universal subservience had developed in her the
selfishness natural to spoilt children, who, like kings, make a
plaything of everything that comes to hand. As yet the graces of youth
and the charms of talent hid these faults from every eye; faults all
the more odious in a woman, since she can only please by self-
sacrifice and unselfishness; but nothing escapes the eye of a good
father, and Monsieur de Fontaine often tried to explain to his
daughter the more important pages of the mysterious book of life. Vain
effort! He had to lament his daughter's capricious indocility and
ironical shrewdness too often to persevere in a task so difficult as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: smaller town. They seemed to match the refined, shrewd, but cold
intelligence of his lean and nervous face.
About sunset he returned from a scene which the distant spectators
had watched with breathless interest. It was in essence only a
repetition of the two that had preceded it, but Reed had evidently
gone almost to the point of violence in his insistence, and the
sheriff had shaken him off rudely. Finally, Morris and his six
prisoners had trailed away. The sheriff and North's friend occupied
the seat of the buggy, while the other five trudged peaceably
alongside. Once again Reed clattered away on his bony steed, but
this time ahead of the official party.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum: her she will surely protect us and prevent our
being hurt, or driven away."
So Betsy and Shaggy each took an arm of the
beautiful Rose Princess and a little twist of her
feet set her free of the branch upon which she
grew. Very gracefully she stepped down from
the bush to the ground, where she bowed low
to Betsy and Shaggy and said in a delightfully
sweet voice: "I thank you."
But at the sound of these words the Gardener and
the Roses turned and discovered that the Princess
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