| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: speaking to himself.
"Oh! yes, sir, and a good man too! There is scarcely any one
hereabouts that does not put his name in their prayers, morning and
night!"
"That is for you, mother," said the soldier, as he gave her several
coins, "and that is for the children," he went on, as he added another
crown. "Is M. Benassis' house still a long way off?" he asked, when he
had mounted his horse.
"Oh! no, sir, a bare league at most."
The commandant set out, fully persuaded that two leagues remained
ahead of him. Yet after all he soon caught a glimpse through the trees
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: I did my best to sit very still, but I couldn't help giving a jump
on seeing in THE TIMES, after I had been a week or two in Munich
and before, as I knew, Corvick had reached London, the
announcement of the sudden death of poor Mrs. Erme. I instantly,
by letter, appealed to Gwendolen for particulars, and she wrote me
that her mother had yielded to long-threatened failure of the
heart. She didn't say, but I took the liberty of reading into her
words, that from the point of view of her marriage and also of her
eagerness, which was quite a match for mine, this was a solution
more prompt than could have been expected and more radical than
waiting for the old lady to swallow the dose. I candidly admit
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: [Dies.]
[Enter Charles, Alencon, Burgundy, Bastard,
La Pucelle, and forces.]
CHARLES.
Had York and Somerset brought rescue in,
We should have found a bloody day of this.
BASTARD.
How the young whelp of Talbot's, raging-wood,
Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen's blood!
PUCELLE.
Once I encounter'd him, and thus I said:
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