| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: actor - he showed nothing of it. He laughed a little, not very
pleasantly, and rose.
"I bow to your choice, mademoiselle. I pray that you may not
regret it"
"Regret it?" cried M. Binet. He was laughing, relieved to see his
daughter at last rid of this suitor of whom he had never approved,
if we except those few hours when he really believed him to be an
eccentric of distinction. "And what shall she regret? That she
accepted the protection of a nobleman so powerful and wealthy that
as a mere trinket he gives her a jewel worth as much as an actress
earns in a year at the Comedie Francaise?" He got up, and advanced
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Awakening & Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin: it matters after all. One has to think of the children some time
or other; the sooner the better."
"When is Leonce coming back?"
"Quite soon. Some time in March."
"And you are going abroad?"
"Perhaps--no, I am not going. I'm not going to be forced into
doing things. I don't want to go abroad. I want to be let alone.
Nobody has any right--except children, perhaps--and even then, it
seems to me--or it did seem--" She felt that her speech was voicing
the incoherency of her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.
"The trouble is," sighed the Doctor, grasping her meaning
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Roads of Destiny by O. Henry: He drew from his coat pocket a batch of folded papers held together by
a rubber band, tossed them into Nettlewick's hands, and rose to his
feet.
"You'll find those securities there, sir, every stock, bond, and share
of 'em. I took them from the notes while you were counting the cash.
Examine and compare them for yourself."
The major led the way back into the banking room. The examiner,
astounded, perplexed, nettled, at sea, followed. He felt that he had
been made the victim of something that was not exactly a hoax, but
that left him in the shoes of one who had been played upon, used, and
then discarded, without even an inkling of the game. Perhaps, also,
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