| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: It was this that Scipio had preferred me to see with my own eyes.
The fight was between man and man no longer. The case could not
be one of forgiveness; but the Virginian would not use his
official position to crush his subordinate.
Trampas departed with something muttered that I did not hear, and
the Virginian closed intimate conversation by saying, "You'll be
late for breakfast." With that he also took himself away.
The ladies were inclined to be scandalized, but not the Judge.
When my whole story was done, he brought his fist down on the
table, and not lightly this time. "I'd make him lieutenant
general if the ranch offered that position!" he declared.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from American Notes by Rudyard Kipling: time I begin to anticipate disaster--a visitation for such good
luck, you understand.
Buffalo is a large village of a quarter of a million inhabitants,
situated on the seashore, which is falsely called Lake Erie. It
is a peaceful place, and more like an English county town than
most of its friends.
Once clear of the main business streets, you launch upon miles
and miles of asphalted roads running between cottages and
cut-stone residences of those who have money and peace. All the
Eastern cities own this fringe of elegance, but except in Chicago
nowhere is the fringe deeper or more heavily widened than in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: said to me: 'Now don't forget, Mariette, for Monsieur du Ronceret is
coming.'"
"That good Mademoiselle Cormon!" ejaculated the chief legal authority
of the town. "Mariette, did you steep them in gravy instead of soup-
stock? it is much richer."
The chief-justice was not above entering the chamber of council where
Mariette held court; he cast the eye of a gastronome around it, and
offered the advice of a past master in cookery.
"Good-day, madame," said Josette to Madame Granson, who courted the
maid. "Mademoiselle has thought of you, and there's fish for dinner."
As for the Chevalier de Valois, he remarked to Mariette, in the easy
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