| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: as the grave. The young barrister started to his feet.
'I am stark-staring mad,' he cried aloud, 'and no one knows it
but myself. God's worst curse has fallen on me.'
His fingers encountered his watch-chain; instantly he had plucked
forth his watch and held it to his ear. He could hear it ticking.
'I am not deaf,' he said aloud. 'I am only insane. My mind has
quitted me for ever.'
He looked uneasily about the room, and--gazed with lacklustre
eyes at the chair in which Mr Dickson had installed himself. The
end of a cigar lay near on the fender.
'No,' he thought, 'I don't believe that was a dream; but God
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: with a man who had upon his conscience the death of a woman and the
life of a natural son, even though Evelina herself should implore them
upon her knees; then, sir, there only remained to me one last hope, a
hope as slender and fragile as the willow-branch at which a drowning
wretch catches to save himself.
"I ventured to think that Evelina's love would be stronger than her
father's scruples, that her inflexible parents might yield to her
entreaties. Perhaps, who knows, her father had kept from her the
reasons of the refusal, which was so fatal to our love. I determined
to acquaint her with all the circumstances, and to make a final appeal
to her; and in fear and trembling, in grief and tears, my first and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: exclaimed.
Lily rose also, with a quick flash of anger. "If you have come
here to say disagreeable things about Mrs. Hatch---"
"It is only with your relation to Mrs. Hatch that I am
concerned."
"My relation to Mrs. Hatch is one I have no reason to be ashamed
of. She has helped me to earn a living when my old friends were
quite resigned to seeing me starve."
"Nonsense! Starvation is not the only alternative. You know you
can always find a home with Gerty till you are independent
again."
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