| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: ing about springtime and flowers in the middle of winter!
When Higgins comes back, tell him to bring me a hot rum
punch. And now get out!"
But who shall shame the bright face of May? Rogue
though she be and disturber of sane men's peace, no wise
virgins cunning nor cold storage shall make her bow her
head in the bright galaxy of months.
Oh, yes, the story was not quite finished.
A night passed, and Higgins helped old man Coulson
in the morning to his chair by the window. The cold of
the room was gone. Heavenly odours and fragrant mild-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: discovered society ceased to be surprised at the imprudence which had
been laid to the charge of Madame de Serizy, the Marquis de
Ronquerolles, and the Chevalier du Rouvre in yielding to the foolish
passion of their niece. People jumped, as usual, from one extreme of
judgment to the other.
During the winter of 1836 Comte Adam was the fashion, and Clementine
Laginska one of the queens of Paris. Madame Laginska is now a member
of that charming circle of young women represented by Mesdames de
Lestorade, de Portenduere, Marie de Vandenesse, du Guenic, and de
Maufrigneuse, the flowers of our present Paris, who live at such
immeasurable distance from the parvenus, the vulgarians, and the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: how to be, and this very thing seemed to excite Heemskirk, who had
worked himself up into a heavily breathing state of passion.
"And the worst of them all is that Allen," he growled. "Your
particular friend - eh? You have let in a lot of these Englishmen
into this part. You ought never to have been allowed to settle
here. Never. What's he doing here now?"
Old Nelson (or Nielsen), becoming very agitated, declared that
Jasper Allen was no particular friend of his. No friend at all -
at all. He had bought three tons of rice from him to feed his
workpeople on. What sort of evidence of friendship was that?
Heemskirk burst out at last with the thought that had been gnawing
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