| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac: Cesar to come down. On seeing his niece Pillerault took off his
spectacles.
"My child, there is hope," he said; "all is not lost. But your husband
could not bear the uncertainty of the negotiations which Anselme and I
are about to undertake. Don't leave your shop to-morrow, and take the
addresses of all the bills; we have till four o'clock in the afternoon
of the 15th. Here is my plan: Neither Ragon nor I am to be considered.
Suppose that your hundred thousand francs deposited with Roguin had
been remitted to the purchasers, you would not have them then any more
than you have them now. The hundred and forty thousand francs for
which notes were given to Claparon, and which must be paid in any
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: life, but there was plenty for Janet's. There had
been a Janet unmarried in every Trumbull family
for generations. That in some subtle fashion ac-
counted for her remaining single. There had also
been an unmarried Jonathan Trumbull, and that
accounted for Johnny's old bachelor uncle Jonathan.
Jonathan was a retired clergyman. He had retired
before he had preached long, because of doctrinal
doubts, which were hereditary. He had a little,
dark study in Johnny's father's house, which was
the old Trumbull homestead, and he passed much
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: contempt is more than I can bear. A man should die untainted. When
I saw you for the first time I loved you as we love a woman whom
we shall love forever, even though she be unfaithful to us. I
loved you thus,--I, the friend of the man you had chosen and were
about to marry; I, poor; I, the steward,--a voluntary service, but
still the steward of your household.
"In this immense misfortune I found a happy life. To be to you an
indispensable machine, to know myself useful to your comfort, your
luxury, has been the source of deep enjoyments. If these
enjoyments were great when I thought only of Adam, think what they
were to my soul when the woman I loved was the mainspring of all I
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