| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Z. Marcas by Honore de Balzac: as one had deceived the other.
The politician was made one of a ministry; Marcas remained in the
opposition to hinder his man from being attacked; nay, by skilful
tactics he won him the applause of the opposition. To excuse himself
for not rewarding his subaltern, the chief pointed out the
impossibility of finding a place suddenly for a man on the other side,
without a great deal of manoeuvring. Marcas had hoped confidently for
a place to enable him to marry, and thus acquire the qualification he
so ardently desired. He was two-and-thirty, and the Chamber ere long
must be dissolved. Having detected his man in this flagrant act of bad
faith, he overthrew him, or at any rate contributed largely to his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: me so."
"I cannot listen to you--I cannot speak to you, Mr. Ratcliffe;
take my best wishes, and for God's sake leave me."
"Tell me only," said Ratcliffe, "is it true that this monstrous
match is to go forward, and this very night? I heard the
servants proclaim it as I was on the great staircase--I heard the
directions given to clear out the chapel."
"Spare me, Mr. Ratcliffe," replied the luckless bride; "and from
the state in which you see me, judge of the cruelty of these
questions."
"Married? to Sir Frederick Langley? and this night? It must not
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: consider," urged Mrs. Moreen. "It's his PLACE - his only place.
You see YOU think it is now."
"Take me away - take me away," Morgan went on, smiling to Pemberton
with his white face.
"Where shall I take you, and how - oh HOW, my boy?" the young man
stammered, thinking of the rude way in which his friends in London
held that, for his convenience, with no assurance of prompt return,
he had thrown them over; of the just resentment with which they
would already have called in a successor, and of the scant help to
finding fresh employment that resided for him in the grossness of
his having failed to pass his pupil.
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