| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: of my political opinions.
"As for the 'Globe,' that's another breed altogether. Just set to
work and talk new doctrines to people you fancy are fools enough
to believe such lies,--why, they think you want to burn their
houses down! It is vain for me to tell them that I speak for
futurity, for posterity, for self-interest properly understood;
for enterprise where nothing can be lost; that man has preyed upon
man long enough; that woman is a slave; that the great
providential thought should be made to triumph; that a way must be
found to arrive at a rational co-ordination of the social fabric,
--in short, the whole reverberation of my sentences. Well, what do
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: seen that was not dying to marry me."
"How do you know that, if you haven't asked her?"
"I don't know how; but I know it."
"I am sure she asked me questions enough about your property
and your titles," said Beaumont.
"She has asked me questions, too; no end of them," Lord Lambeth admitted.
"But she asked for information, don't you know."
"Information? Aye, I'll warrant she wanted it. Depend upon it
that she is dying to marry you just as much and just as little
as all the rest of them."
"I shouldn't like her to refuse me--I shouldn't like that."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: rapid shuffling sound as of the scurrying of rats and
then the quiet of the tomb settled upon the great hall.
"Are you safe and unhurt, my Lady Bertrade?" asked
a grave English voice out of the darkness.
"Quite, Sir Knight," she replied, "and you?"
"Not a scratch, but where is our good friend the
Baron?"
"He lay here upon the floor but a moment since, and
carried a thin long dagger in his hand. Have a care,
Sir Knight, he may even now be upon you."
The knight did not answer, but she heard him mov-
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