| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: manner; besides, at this moment, she was too keenly preoccupied to
perceive the reason of her removal.
Nothing is more mortifying to young girls, or, indeed, to all the
world, than to see a piece of mischief, an insult, or a biting speech,
miss its effect through the contempt or the indifference of the
intended victim. It seems as if hatred to an enemy grows in proportion
to the height that enemy is raised above us. Ginevra's behavior was an
enigma to all her companions; her friends and enemies were equally
surprised; for the former claimed for her all good qualities, except
that of forgiveness of injuries. Though, of course, the occasions for
displaying that vice of nature were seldom afforded to Ginevra in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: of animals is determined not by the temperature, but
by the times of drought. Near Rio de Janeiro, I was at first
surprised to observe, that, a few days after some little
depressions had been filled with water, they were peopled by
numerous full-grown shells and beetles, which must have
been lying dormant. Humboldt has related the strange accident
of a hovel having been erected over a spot where a
young crocodile lay buried in the hardened mud. He adds,
"The Indians often find enormous boas, which they call Uji
or water serpents, in the same lethargic state. To reanimate
them, they must be irritated or wetted with water."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: system of farming they hadn't got very rich; and very rich they DID
get. They generally contrived to keep their corn by them till it
was very dear, and then sell it for twice its value; they had heaps
of gold lying about on their floors, yet it was never known that
they had given so much as a penny or a crust in charity; they never
went to Mass, grumbled perpetually at paying tithes, and were, in a
word, of so cruel and grinding a temper as to receive from all those
with whom they had any dealings the nickname of the "Black
Brothers."
The youngest brother, Gluck, was as completely opposed, in
both appearance and character, to his seniors as could possibly
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