| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Z. Marcas by Honore de Balzac: and science alike were in vain. By the month of January, 1838, Marcas
himself felt that he had but a few days to live.
The man whose soul and brain he had been for six months never even
sent to inquire after him. Marcas expressed the greatest contempt for
the Government; he seemed to doubt what the fate of France might be,
and it was this doubt that had made him ill. He had, he thought,
detected treason in the heart of power, not tangible, seizable
treason, the result of facts, but the treason of a system, the
subordination of national interests to selfish ends. His belief in the
degradation of the country was enough to aggravate his complaint.
I myself was witness to the proposals made to him by one of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: much he gathered, that his spiritual father did not think ill of
his fighting the Earl of Alban for his temporal father's sake.
So Myles went to France in Lord George's company, a soldier of
fortune, as his Captain was. He was there for only six months,
but those six months wrought a great change in his life. In the
fierce factional battles that raged around the walls of Paris; in
the evil life which he saw at the Burgundian court in Paris
itself after the truce--a court brilliant and wicked, witty and
cruel--the wonderful liquor of youth had evaporated rapidly, and
his character had crystallized as rapidly into the hardness of
manhood. The warfare, the blood, the evil pleasures which he had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: seen upon the scarecrow,
topped with an old tam-o-
shanter of Mr. McGregor's.
LITTLE Benjamin said,
"It spoils people's clothes
to squeeze under a gate; the
proper way to get in, is to
climb down a pear tree."
Peter fell down head first;
but it was of no consequence,
as the bed below was newly
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