| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: seems he nearly killed a woman who was pregnant--"
"Well, well," interrupted the sorceress, "if I am to tell fortunes
alone, you might as well guillotine me at once. Because a fool of a
woman lay-in with a dead child, must toads be suppressed in nature?
Why did God make them?"
"My dear woman," said the chief, "did you never hear that in 1617 a
learned man was put to death for having a toad in a bottle?"
"Yes, I know that; but we are not in those light ages," replied Madame
Fontaine, facetiously.
"As for you, Madame Nourrisson, the complaint is that you gather your
fruit unripe. You ought to know by this time the laws and regulations,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: "And your sermon was so head-and-shoulders above all
the others!" she went on breathlessly. "Everybody said so!
And Mrs. Parshall heard it so DIRECT that you were to
be sent here, and I know she told everybody how much I
was lotting on it--I wish we could go right off tonight
without going to her house--I shall be ashamed to look
her in the face--and of course she knows we're poked
off to that miserable Octavius.--Why, Theron, they tell
me it's a worse place even than we've got now!"
"Oh, not at all," he put in reassuringly. "It has
grown to be a large town--oh, quite twice the size
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Certainly not for a common swindler who'd have to steal the ring he
put on her finger."
"I won't stand this!" cried Daisy. "Oh, please let's get out."
"Who are you, anyhow?" broke out Tom. "You're one of that bunch that
hangs around with Meyer Wolfshiem--that much I happen to know. I've made
a little investigation into your affairs--and I'll carry it further
to-morrow."
"You can suit yourself about that, old sport." said Gatsby steadily.
"I found out what your 'drug-stores' were." He turned to us and spoke
rapidly. "He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores
here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That's one of
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