| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: rich by assisting their pleasures. She received the procureur of the
commune, the mayor, the judge of the district court, the public
prosecutor, and even the judges of the revolutionary tribunal.
The first four of these personages, being bachelors, courted her with
the hope of marriage, furthering their cause by either letting her see
the evils they could do her, or those from which they could protect
her. The public prosecutor, previously an attorney at Caen, and the
manager of the countess's affairs, tried to inspire her with love by
an appearance of generosity and devotion; a dangerous attempt for her.
He was the most to be feared among her suitors. He alone knew the
exact condition of the property of his former client. His passion was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: remainder of the week.
The janitor determined to resolve his suspicions. He climbed up
to the back windows of the lower laboratory, found one of them
unfastened, and let himself in. But, beyond evidences of the
considerable fires that had been kept burning during the last few
days, Littlefield saw nothing to excite peculiar attention.
Still he was uneasy. Those he met in the street kept on telling
him that Dr. Parkman would be found in the Medical College. He
felt that he himself was beginning to be suspected of having some
share in the mystery, whilst in his own mind he became more
certain every day that the real solution lay within the walls of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: jasper or chrysoberyl. Sometimes he walked close to the bank of
Oukianos and whistled to the sprightly and iridescent fish of
that crystal stream, and at other times he paused amidst the whispering
rushes and gazed at the great dark wood on the farther side, whose
trees came down clear to the water's edge. In former dreams he
had seen quaint lumbering buopoths come shyly out of that wood
to drink, but now he could not glimpse any. Once in a while he
paused to watch a carnivorous fish catch a fishing bird, which
it lured to the water by showing its tempting scales in the sun,
and grasped by the beak with its enormous mouth as the winged
hunter sought to dart down upon it.
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