| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: myself. It was against her consent that she was consigned to a
convent, doubtless to repress that inclination for pleasure which
had already become too manifest, and which caused, in the sequel,
all her misfortunes and mine. I combated the cruel intention of
her parents with all the arguments that my new-born passion and
schoolboy eloquence could suggest. She affected neither
austerity nor reserve. She told me, after a moment's silence,
that she foresaw too clearly, what her unhappy fate must be; but
that it was, apparently, the will of Heaven, since there were no
means left her to avert it. The sweetness of her look, the air
of sorrow with which she pronounced these words, or rather
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: Lady Stutfield's cloak, you might help me with my workbasket.
[Enter LORD ILLINGWORTH and MRS. ALLONBY.]
SIR JOHN. Certainly, my love. [Exeunt.]
MRS. ALLONBY. Curious thing, plain women are always jealous of
their husbands, beautiful women never are!
LORD ILLINGWORTH. Beautiful women never have time. They are
always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands.
MRS. ALLONBY. I should have thought Lady Caroline would have grown
tired of conjugal anxiety by this time! Sir John is her fourth!
LORD ILLINGWORTH. So much marriage is certainly not becoming.
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: and in his place there stood a lion with bristling mane and
flaming eyes--a sight fit of itself to kill a body with terror.
"That will do!" cried the princess, quaking and trembling at the
sight, and thereupon the magician took his own shape again.
"Now," said he, "do you believe that I am as great as the poor
soldier?"
"Not yet," said the princess; "I have seen how big you can make
yourself, now I wish to see how little you can become. Let me see
you change yourself into a mouse."
"So be it," said the magician, and began again to mutter his
spells. Then all of a sudden he was gone just as he was gone
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