| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Christ in Flanders by Honore de Balzac: son."
We were sitting before the hearth, the ashes lay cold upon it; the old
shrunken woman grasped my hand so tightly in hers that I could not
choose but stay. I looked fixedly at her, striving to read the story
of her life from the things among which she was crouching. Had she
indeed any life in her? It was a mystery. Yet I saw plainly that once
she must have been young and beautiful; fair, with all the charm of
simplicity, perfect as some Greek statue, with the brow of a vestal.
"Ah! ah!" I cried, "now I know thee! Miserable woman, why hast thou
prostituted thyself? In the age of thy passions, in the time of thy
prosperity, the grace and purity of thy youth were forgotten.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: acquainted with the women of society, and with the women who
only wished to be in society. But here was one who was in the
chrysalis, and had never been a grub, and had no wish to be a
butterfly, and what should he make of her? He was like a
student of insects who had never seen a bee. Never had he
known a young girl who cared for the things which this maiden
sought, or who was not dazzled by things to which Hope seemed
perfectly indifferent. She was not a devotee, she was not a
prude; people seemed to amuse and interest her; she liked them,
she declared, as much as she liked books. But this very way of
putting the thing seemed like inverting the accustomed order of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: into Rob's pocket and drew out the electric tube. His ignorance of
modern appliances was so great that he did not know enough to push
the button. Rob saw him looking down the hollow end of the tube
and murmured:
"I wish it would blow your ugly head off!"
But the fellow, thinking the shining metal might be of some value to
him, put the tube in his own pocket and then took from the prisoner
the silver box of tablets.
Rob writhed and groaned at losing his possessions in this way, and
while his hands were fastened behind him tried to feel for and touch
the indicator of the traveling machine. When he found that the
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