| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac: personal expenses. To get money out of so experienced a debtor as the
Count, a creditor should really be in a position uncommonly difficult
to reach; it is a question of being creditor and debtor both, for then
you are legally entitled to work the confusion of rights, in law
language--"
"To the confusion of the debtor?" asked Malaga, lending an attentive
ear to this discourse.
"No, the confusion of rights of debtor and creditor, and pay yourself
through your own hands. So Claparon's innocence in merely issuing
writs of attachment eased the Count's mind. As he came back from the
Varietes with Antonia, he was so much the more taken with the idea of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: Armistice," he continued. "We could go to any of the universities in
England or France."
I wanted to get up and slap him on the back. I had one of those renewals
of complete faith in him that I'd experienced before.
Daisy rose, smiling faintly, and went to the table.
"Open the whiskey, Tom," she ordered, "and I'll make you a mint julep.
Then you won't seem so stupid to yourself. . . . Look at the mint!"
"Wait a minute," snapped Tom, "I want to ask Mr. Gatsby one more
question."
"Go on," Gatsby said politely.
"What kind of a row are you trying to cause in my house anyhow?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: Debray had the horses put to his carriage, and drove to
Danglars' house.
"Has your husband any Spanish bonds?" he asked of the
baroness.
"I think so, indeed! He has six millions' worth."
"He must sell them at whatever price."
"Why?"
"Because Don Carlos has fled from Bourges, and has returned
to Spain."
"How do you know?" Debray shrugged his shoulders. "The idea
of asking how I hear the news," he said. The baroness did
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