| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: drawn swords, for mine still hung within its scabbard at my side,
and there was a smile upon my lips.
The yellow nobles, too, looked in surprise, and then as I made
no move to draw they hesitated, fearing a ruse; but their leader
urged them on. When they had come almost within sword's reach of
me I raised my hand and laid it upon the polished surface of a
great lever, and then, still smiling grimly, I looked my enemies
full in the face.
As one they came to a sudden stop, casting affrighted glances
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Purse by Honore de Balzac: position which his talent had placed high. The work to which he
had devoted himself from boyhood, by compelling him to dwell in
solitude--the mother of great thoughts--had left him the
beautiful beliefs which grace the early days of life. His
adolescent soul was not closed to any of the thousand bashful
emotions by which a young man is a being apart, whose heart
abounds in joys, in poetry, in virginal hopes, puerile in the
eyes of men of the world, but deep because they are single-
hearted.
He was endowed with the gentle and polite manners which speak to
the soul, and fascinate even those who do not understand them. He
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: there was never any moral sympathy between us. . . . Well, Arthur, I
suppose this romantic interview may be regarded as at an end. You
admit it was romantic, don't you? For the privilege of being your
wife I was ready to surrender a great prize, the climax of my
diplomatic career. You decline. Very well. If Sir Robert doesn't
uphold my Argentine scheme, I expose him. VOILE TOUT.
LORD GORING. You mustn't do that. It would be vile, horrible,
infamous.
MRS. CHEVELEY. [Shrugging her shoulders.] Oh! don't use big words.
They mean so little. It is a commercial transaction. That is all.
There is no good mixing up sentimentality in it. I offered to sell
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