| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: "I don't know whether I ought to tell you to sit down," she said.
"It is too late to begin a visit."
"It 's too early to end one," Acton declared; "and we need
n't mind the beginning."
She looked at him again, and, after a moment, dropped once
more into her low chair, while he took a place near her.
"We are in the middle, then?" she asked. "Was that where we were
when you went away? No, I have n't been to the other house."
"Not yesterday, nor the day before, eh?"
"I don't know how many days it is."
"You are tired of it," said Acton.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maitre Cornelius by Honore de Balzac: I, I am the robber!"
Jeanne Hoogworst rose from her stool and stood erect as if the seat
she quitted were of red-hot iron. This shock was so violent for an old
maid accustomed for years to reduce herself by voluntary fasts, that
she trembled in every limb, and horrible pains were in her back. She
turned pale by degrees, and her face,--the changes in which were
difficult to decipher among its wrinkles,--became distorted while her
brother explained to her the malady of which he was the victim, and
the extraordinary situation in which he found himself.
"Louis XI. and I," he said in conclusion, "have just been lying to
each other like two pedlers of coconuts. You understand, my girl, that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: suspiciously, as it seemed, at the newcomer.
"What is it you want?" he asked, and, not waiting for a reply,
he shouted through the open door:
"Bernoff, the somovar! What are you about?"
"Coming at once."
"You'll get it 'at once' so that you'll remember it," shouted the
officer, and his eyes flashed.
"I'm coming," shouted the soldier, and brought in the somovar.
Nekhludoff waited while the soldier placed the somovar on the
table. When the officer had followed the soldier out of the room
with his cruel little eyes looking as if they were aiming where
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