| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: arouse an aversion which might become insurmountable. I will help you
to tame her and make her come to you. Let us sit on this bench. If you
pay no attention to her, she will come of her own accord to examine
you."
"SHE! not to know me! to flee me!" repeated the colonel, seating
himself on a bench with his back to a tree that shaded it, and letting
his head fall upon his breast.
The doctor said nothing. Presently, the countess came gently down the
fir-tree, letting herself swing easily on the branches, as the wind
swayed them. At each branch she stopped to examine the stranger; but
seeing him motionless, she at last sprang to the ground and came
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: lighted up as if for a procession and all as empty as a church--
till at last I got into that state of mind when a man listens and
listens and begins to long for the sight of a policeman. All at
once, I saw two figures: one a little man who was stumping along
eastward at a good walk, and the other a girl of maybe eight or
ten who was running as hard as she was able down a cross street.
Well, sir, the two ran into one another naturally enough at the
corner; and then came the horrible part of the thing; for the man
trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on
the ground. It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see.
It wasn't like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut. I gave
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: beyond all our dreams, what must be the glory of His face itself!
I have done with vain shadows. It is better to depart and to be
with Him, where shall be neither desire nor anger, self-deception
nor pretence, but the eternal fulness of reality and truth. One
thing I have to do before I die, for God has laid it on me. Let
that be done to-night, and then, farewell!"
"Frank! Frank! remember our mother!"
"I do remember her. I have talked over these things with her many
a time; and where I would fain be, she would fain be also. She
sent me out with my virgin honor, as the Spartan mother did her boy
with the shield, saying, 'Come back either with this, or upon
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