| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Massimilla Doni by Honore de Balzac: conscious of having a body.
Massimilla, much distressed, ascribed this tear, in her guilelessness,
to the remark she had made as to Genovese's cavatina.
"But, /carino/," said she in Emilio's ear, "are not you as far better
than every expression of love, as cause is superior to effect?"
After handing the Duchess to her gondola, Emilio waited for Vendramin
to go to Florian's.
The Cafe Florian at Venice is a quite undefinable institution.
Merchants transact their business there, and lawyers meet to talk over
their most difficult cases. Florian's is at once an Exchange, a green-
room, a newspaper office, a club, a confessional,--and it is so well
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: for his discernment. Certainly responsiveness to the geniality of
casual fellow passengers did not impress Mr. Collins as likely to
be an outstanding, quality in her. But with the drummer from
Chicago, the young mining engineer going to Sonora, the two shy
little English children just in front of him traveling to meet
their father in California, he found intuitively common ground of
interest. Even Major Mackenzie, the engineer in charge of the
large irrigation project being built by a company in southern
Arizona, relaxed at one of the plainsman's humorous tales.
It was after Collins had half-depopulated the car by leading the
more jovial spirits back in search of liquid refreshments that an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: the Weldon Institute are again in my power. In holding them prisoners
I would but be exercising my natural right of reprisal for the
injuries they have done me. But the passion and resentment which have
been roused both in them and you by the success of the 'Albatross,'
show that the souls of men are not yet ready for the vast increase of
power which the conquest of the air will bring to them. Uncle
Prudent, Phillip Evans, you are free."
The three men rescued from the balloon leaped to the ground. The
airship rose some thirty feet out of reach, and Robur recommenced:
"Citizens of the United States, the conquest of the air is made; but
it shall not be given into your hands until the proper time. I leave,
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