| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: insure light for twelve hours.
James Starr and his companions now felt perfectly happy.
All their wishes were satisfied. There was nothing but coal around them.
A sort of emotion kept them silent; even Simon Ford restrained himself.
His joy overflowed, not in long phrases, but in short ejaculations.
It was perhaps imprudent to venture so far into the crypt.
Pooh! they never thought of how they were to get back.
The gallery was practicable, not very winding. They met
with no noxious exhalations, nor did any chasm bar the path.
There was no reason for stopping for a whole hour;
James Starr, Madge, Harry, and Simon Ford walked on,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: much."
Nevertheless, one may believe, without going widely astray, that
illness, so far from veiling, more often quickens the
perceptions--at any rate those of the naturally keen. On a later
day--and the interval was brief--while Molly was on her second
drive to take the air with Mrs. Taylor, that lady informed her
that the sick man had noticed. "And I could not tell him things
liable to disturb him," said she, "and so I--well, I expect I
just didn't exactly tell him the facts. I said yes, you were
packing up for a little visit to your folks. They had not seen
you for quite a while, I said. And he looked at those boxes kind
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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: "Old cheat!" thought Suzanne, doing as he told her, "I'll tell about
your false toupet."
She compared du Bousquier with that charming chevalier, who had given
her nothing, it is true, but who had comprehended her, advised her,
and carried all grisettes in his heart.
"If you deceive me, Suzanne," cried du Bousquier, as he saw her with
her hand in the drawer, "you--"
"Monsieur," she said, interrupting him with ineffable impertinence,
"wouldn't you have given me money if I had asked for it?"
Recalled to a sense of gallantry, du Bousquier had a remembrance of
past happiness and grunted his assent. Suzanne took the bag and
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