| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: 'Don't know the man,' was the reply. 'Name of Moss.'
'A Jew,' Morris reflected, when his visitor was gone. And what
could a Jew want with a claim of--he verified the amount in the
books--a claim of three five eight, nineteen, ten, against the
house of Finsbury? And why should he pay cent. for cent.? The
figure proved the loyalty of Rodgerson--even Morris admitted
that. But it proved unfortunately something else--the eagerness
of Moss. The claim must have been wanted instantly, for that day,
for that morning even. Why? The mystery of Moss promised to be a
fit pendant to the mystery of Pitman. 'And just when all was
looking well too!' cried Morris, smiting his hand upon the desk.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac: stopped me by a gesture.
"Monsieur," she said, in a voice trembling with emotion. "I know all
your thoughts; but I shall not change my feelings towards you. I would
rather fling myself into the Indre than ally myself to you. I will not
speak to you of myself, but if my mother's name still possesses any
power over you, in her name I beg you never to return to Clochegourde
so long as I am in it. The mere sight of you causes me a repugnance I
cannot express, but which I shall never overcome."
She bowed to me with dignity, and returned to the house without
looking back, impassible as her mother had been for one day only, but
more pitiless. The searching eye of that young girl had discovered,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac: the lawyer brought forward, and produced a bill for two hundred and
twenty-seven thousand francs, principal and interest, the total amount
of sums advanced to M. Victurnien in bills of exchange drawn upon du
Croisier, and duly honored by him. Of these, he now demanded immediate
payment, with a threat of proceeding to extremities with the heir-
presumptive of the house. Chesnel turned the unlucky letters over one
by one, and asked the enemy to keep the secret. This he engaged to do
if he were paid within forty-eight hours. He was pressed for money he
had obliged various manufacturers; and there followed a series of the
financial fictions by which neither notaries nor borrowers are
deceived. Chesnel's eyes were dim; he could scarcely keep back the
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