| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: impending change in the feelings of father and daughter gave to the
worn and weary face of the baroness an expression of terror.
"Ginevra, you love the enemy of your family," said Piombo, at last,
not daring to look at his daughter.
"That is true," she replied.
"You must choose between us. Our vendetta is a part of our being.
Whoso does not share my vengeance is not a member of my family."
"My choice is made," replied Ginevra, calmly.
His daughter's tranquillity misled Bartolomeo.
"Oh! my dear child!" he cried, letting her see his eyes moistened with
tears, the first and only tears he ever shed in life.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: "Well, whaduz he wave his dam' fool arms for?" growled Kitchell,
angry because something was going forward he did not understand.
"There, he's shouting again. Listen--I can't make out what he's
yelling."
"He'll yell to a different pipe when I get my grip of him. I'll
twist the head of that swab till he'll have to walk back'ard to
see where he's goin'. Whaduz he wave his arms for--whaduz he yell
like a dam' philly-loo bird for? What's him say, Charlie?"
"Jim heap sing, no can tell. Mebbee--tinkum sing, come back chop-
chop."
"We'll see. Oars out, men, give way. Now, son, put a little o'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: and it so happened that this Captain McGowan sat at a window where
he could see me very distinctly, and would certainly have recognized
me had he looked at me but for a second. Fortunately, in the hurry
of the moment, he did not see me; and the trains soon passed each
other on their respective ways. But this was not my only hair-
breadth escape. A German blacksmith whom I knew well was on the
train with me, and looked at me very intently, as if he thought
he had seen me somewhere before in his travels. I really
believe he knew me, but had no heart to betray me. At any rate,
he saw me escaping and held his peace.
The last point of imminent danger, and the one I dreaded most,
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