| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Misalliance by George Bernard Shaw: HYPATIA. Aha! arnt you glad Ive caught you?
PERCIVAL. _[illhumoredly turning away from her and coming towards the
writing table]_ No I'm not. Confound it, what sort of girl are you?
What sort of house is this? Must I throw all good manners to the
winds?
HYPATIA. _[following him]_ Do, do, do, do, do. This is the house of
a respectable shopkeeper, enormously rich. This is the respectable
shopkeeper's daughter, tired of good manners. _[Slipping her left
hand into his right]_ Come, handsome young man, and play with the
respectable shopkeeper's daughter.
PERCIVAL. _[withdrawing quickly from her touch]_ No, no: dont you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: flowers of its elegance, the embroidery of its gossip, the wit of its
lies. We writers invent no more than the truth. Poor Diane! Michel had
penetrated that enigma; he said that beneath her covering of ice there
lay volcanoes! Bianchon and Rastignac were right; when a man can join
the grandeurs of the ideal and the enjoyments of human passion in
loving a woman of perfect manners, of intellect, of delicacy, it must
be happiness beyond words."
So thinking, he sounded the love that was in him and found it
infinite.
CHAPTER V
A TRIAL OF FAITH
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: fright to confess their own faults - which is so cruel and unfair
that no judge on the bench dare do it to the wickedest thief or
murderer, for the good British law forbids it - ay, and even punish
them to make them confess, which is so detestable a crime that it
is never committed now, save by Inquisitors, and Kings of Naples,
and a few other wretched people of whom the world is weary. And
then they say, "We have trained up the child in the way he should
go, and when he grew up he has departed from it. Why then did
Solomon say that he would not depart from it?" But perhaps the way
of beating, and hurrying and frightening, and questioning, was not
the way that the child should go; for it is not even the way in
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