| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: she will be sure to send one of us down to call you, so that you
may play the doctor again. So don't shoot at sight.'
"'He isn't a shooting man,' struck in Niclaus.
"'I never shoot before making sure there's a reason for it - at any
rate,' said Davidson.
"Bamtz let out a sickly snigger. The Frenchman alone got up to
make a bow to Davidson's careless nod. His stumps were stuck
immovably in his pockets. Davidson understood now the reason.
"He went down to the ship. His wits were working actively, and he
was thoroughly angry. He smiled, he says (it must have been the
first grim smile of his life), at the thought of the seven-pound
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: man can do against many, I will! Louis, give your mistress your
arm and take her to the house. Take her to Madame.'
'But you will go?' she cried. And before I could stay her--I
swear I would have stopped her if I could--she raised my hand and
carried it to her trembling lips. 'You will go! Go and stop
them! Stop them, and Heaven reward you, Monsieur!'
I did not answer; nay, I did not once look back, as I crossed the
meadow; but I did not look forward either. Doubtless it was
grass I trod, and the wood was before me with the sun shining
aslant on it; doubtless the house rose behind me with a flame
here and there in the windows. But I went in a dream, among
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: it happened that the quartermaster Diard married Juana di Mancini,
that Montefiore and Diard were intimately known to each other, and to
show plainly what blood and what passions were in Madame Diard.
CHAPTER III
THE HISTORY OF MADAME DIARD
By the time that the quartermaster had fulfilled all the long and
dilatory formalities without which no French soldier can be married,
he was passionately in love with Juana di Mancini, and Juana had had
time to think of her coming destiny.
An awful destiny! Juana, who felt neither esteem nor love for Diard,
was bound to him forever, by a rash but necessary promise. The man was
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