| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: compromise the respect due to my white hairs."
The affection thus expressed by her father, the solemn tones of his
urgent address, deeply touched Mademoiselle de Fontaine; but she
concealed her emotion, seated herself on her father's knees--for he
had dropped all tremulous into his chair again--caressed him fondly,
and coaxed him so engagingly that the old man's brow cleared. As soon
as Emilie thought that her father had got over his painful agitation,
she said in a gentle voice: "I have to thank you for your graceful
attention, my dear father. You have had your room set in order to
receive your beloved daughter. You did not perhaps know that you would
find her so foolish and so headstrong. But, papa, is it so difficult
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: McGaw which really turned the scale in his favor. To hustle
successfully it was often necessary for Crane to cut some sharp
corners.
This dock, as McGaw knew perfectly well, had been leased to
another party--the Fertilizing Company--for two years, and could
not possibly be placed at Crane's disposal. But he said nothing
of this to Crane.
When the day of payment to McGaw arrived, Dempsey of the executive
committee and Walking Delegate Quigg met McGaw at the ferry on his
return from New York. McGaw had Crane's money in his pocket.
That night he paid two hundred dollars into the Union, two hundred
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: X
And while I neglected the development of my uncle's finances--and
my own, in my scientific work and my absorbing conflict with the
difficulties of flying,--his schemes grew more and more expansive
and hazardous, and his spending wilder and laxer. I believe that
a haunting sense of the intensifying unsoundness of his position
accounts largely for his increasing irritability and his
increasing secretiveness with my aunt and myself during these
crowning years. He dreaded, I think, having to explain, he
feared our jests might pierce unwittingly to the truth. Even in
the privacy of his mind he would not face the truth. He was
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