| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: close?"
"I will tell you why he came there first," said I. "It was to bring
this letter to James More. Why he stops here now that it's delivered,
what it's likely to be about, why there's an officer hiding in the
bents, and whether or not it's probable that he's alone - I would
rather you considered for yourself."
"A letter to James More?" said he.
"The same," said I.
"Well, and I can tell ye more than that," said Alan. "For the last
night, when you were fast asleep, I heard the man colloguing with some
one in the French, and then the door of that inn to be opened and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: national troubles. At this period, the royalists in the interior of
France expected day by day that the Revolution would be ended on the
morrow. This conviction was the ruin of very many of them.
In spite of these difficulties, the countess had maintained her
independence very cleverly until the day when, by an inexplicable
imprudence, she closed her doors to her usual evening visitors. Madame
de Dey inspired so genuine and deep an interest, that the persons who
called upon her that evening expressed extreme anxiety on being told
that she was unable to receive them. Then, with that frank curiosity
which appears in provincial manners, they inquired what misfortune,
grief, or illness afflicted her. In reply to these questions, an old
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: kissed the lines which contained her forgiveness, he said to her:
"Well, now that he is lost to you, will you not be reconciled to your
mother and marry the Comte de Soulas?"
"Only if Albert should order it," said she.
"But you see it is impossible to consult him. The General of the Order
would not allow it."
"If I were to go to see him?"
"No Carthusian sees any visitor. Besides, no woman but the Queen of
France may enter a Carthusian monastery," said the Abbe. "So you have
no longer any excuse for not marrying young Monsieur de Soulas."
"I do not wish to destroy my mother's happiness," retorted Rosalie.
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