| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: quitted by the Gardiners and Jane; but as he took up his abode
with the Lucases, his arrival was no great inconvenience to Mrs.
Bennet. His marriage was now fast approaching, and she was at
length so far resigned as to think it inevitable, and even
repeatedly to say, in an ill-natured tone, that she "WISHED they
might be happy." Thursday was to be the wedding day, and on
Wednesday Miss Lucas paid her farewell visit; and when she
rose to take leave, Elizabeth, ashamed of her mother's
ungracious and reluctant good wishes, and sincerely affected
herself, accompanied her out of the room. As they went
downstairs together, Charlotte said:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: weave a web of iron wire about the two musicians, and to watch them as
a spider watches a fly caught in the toils; and her reward was to be a
tobacconist's license. Fraisier had found a convenient opportunity of
getting rid of his so-called foster-mother, while he posted her as a
detective and policeman to supervise Mme. Cantinet. As there was a
servant's bedroom and a little kitchen included in the apartment, La
Sauvage could sleep on a truckle-bed and cook for the German. Dr.
Poulain came with the two women just as Pons drew his last breath.
Schmucke was sitting beside his friend, all unconscious of the crisis,
holding the hand that slowly grew colder in his grasp. He signed to
Mme. Cantinet to be silent; but Mme. Sauvage's soldierly figure
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: travelled towards his old home. In his journeying he came to a
lonely house at the edge of a great forest, and there night came
upon him. He sent one of the many of those who rode with him to
ask whether he could not find lodging there for the time, and who
should answer the summons but the king, his father, dressed in
the coarse clothing of a forester. The old king did not know his
own son in the kingly young king who sat upon his snow-white
horse. He bade the visitor to enter, and he and the old queen
served their son and bowed before him.
The next morning the young king rode back to his own land, and
then sent attendants with horses and splendid clothes, and bade
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