| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac: owe reparation? But I love; I love passionately. My love is my life.
If I, without apparent motive, suggest to a young girl accustomed to
luxury, to elegance, to a life fruitful of all enjoyments of art, a
young girl who loves to idly listen at the opera to Rossini's music,--
if to her I should propose that she deprive herself of fifteen hundred
thousand francs in favor of broken-down old men, or scrofulous
paupers, she would turn her back on me and laugh, or her confidential
friend would tell her that I'm a crazy jester. If in an ecstasy of
love, I should paint to her the charms of a modest life, and a little
home on the banks of the Loire; if I were to ask her to sacrifice her
Parisian life on the altar of our love, it would be, in the first
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: stature, she must be full eight feet high. When rebuking me, she can
pronounce a single word, my name, "Augustus!" in a tone that renders
further remark needless; and you should see her eye when she says of
certain newcomers in our society, "I don't know them." She can make her
curtsy as appalling as a natural law; she knows also how to "take
umbrage," which is something that I never knew any one else to take
outside of a book; she is a highly pronounced Christian, holding all
Unitarians wicked and all Methodists vulgar; and once, when she was
talking (as she does frequently) about King James and the English
religion and the English Bible, and I reminded her that the Jews wrote
it, she said with displeasure that she made no doubt King James had--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
SA1 26:8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy
into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee,
with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the
second time.
SA1 26:9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can
stretch forth his hand against the LORD's anointed, and be guiltless?
SA1 26:10 David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall
smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into
battle, and perish.
SA1 26:11 The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against
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