| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Recruit by Honore de Balzac: so that all Madame de Dey's usual visitors came eagerly and early that
evening to watch her countenance: some out of true friendship, but
most of them to detect the secret of her seclusion.
They found the countess seated as usual, at the corner of the great
fireplace in her salon, a room almost as unpretentious as the other
salons in Carentan; for, in order not to wound the narrow view of her
guests, she denied herself the luxuries to which she was accustomed.
The floor of her reception room was not even waxed, the walls were
still hung with dingy tapestries; she used the country furniture,
burned tallow candles, and followed the customs of the town,--adopting
provincial life, and not shrinking from its pettiness or its many
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: talked--how I'd talked----"
"Oh, Orville, don't! I can't bear---- Have you had your
breakfast?"
"Why, no. The train was an hour late. You know that Ashland
train."
But she was out of his arms and making for the kitchen. "You go
and clean up. I'll have hot biscuits and everything in no time.
You poor boy. No breakfast!"
She made good her promise. It could not have been more than half
an hour later when he was buttering his third feathery,
golden-brown biscuit. But she had eaten nothing. She watched
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: "I will," promised the Tin Woodman; and then he followed the Nome King
to the entrance to the palace and the rock closed behind him.
13. The Nome King Laughs
In a moment the King returned to his throne and relighted his pipe,
and the rest of the little band of adventurers settled themselves for
another long wait. They were greatly disheartened by the failure of
their girl Ruler, and the knowledge that she was now an ornament in
the Nome King's palace--a dreadful, creepy place in spite of all its
magnificence. Without their little leader they did not know what to
do next, and each one, down to the trembling private of the army,
began to fear he would soon be more ornamental than useful.
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