| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: he going? I have never seen you before," said Pierrotin to the valet
as they touched glasses.
"There's a good reason for that," said the footman. "My master only
goes into your parts about once a year, and then in his own carriage.
He prefers the valley d'Orge, where he has the most beautiful park in
the neighborhood of Paris, a perfect Versailles, a family estate of
which he bears the name. Don't you know Monsieur Moreau?"
"The steward of Presles?"
"Yes. Monsieur le Comte is going down to spend a couple of days with
him."
"Ha! then I'm to carry Monsieur le Comte de Serizy!" cried the coach-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Love and Friendship by Jane Austen: ease in their Manners and address which could not fail of
pleasing--. Imagine my dear Madam how delighted I must have been
in beholding as I did, how attentively they observed every object
they saw, how disgusted with some Things, how enchanted with
others, how astonished at all! On the whole however they
returned in raptures with the World, its Inhabitants, and
Manners.
Yrs Ever--A. F.
LETTER the SECOND
From a YOUNG LADY crossed in Love to her freind
Why should this last disappointment hang so heavily on my
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: Esteem therefore nought in the present world above God and his
blessings. For what terror of this life can be so terrible as
the Gehenna of eternal fire, that burneth and yet hath no light,
that punisheth and never ceaseth? And which of the goodly things
of this world can give such gladness as that which the great God
giveth to those that love him? Whose beauty is unspeakable, and
power invincible, and glory everlasting; whose good things,
prepared for his friends, exceed beyond comparison all that is
seen; which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man: whereof mayest thou be shown an
inheritor, preserved by the mighty hand of God!"
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