| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: that was all that came of my going to give him a flogging. I
wonder whether he made poor Troubadour shy when I lashed at
him? Jerry has his ways of getting even with people.'
'I wonder,' said Una. 'Well, did you try the charm? Did it work?'
'What nonsense! I told Rene about it, of course, because he's a
doctor. He's going to be a most famous doctor. That's why our
doctor hates him. Rene said, "Oho! Your Master Gamm, he is
worth knowing," and he put up his eyebrows -like this. He made
joke of it all. He can see my window from the carpenter's shed,
where he works, and if ever the maple stick fell down, he
pretended to be in a fearful taking till I propped the window up
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac: arrondissement; thus, as magistrate and as customer, I request you to
take another tone with me."
"I marry when I please," said the virago. "I don't trouble the mayor,
or bother his deputies. As for my customers, they adore me, and I talk
to 'em as I choose. If they don't like it, they can snake off
elsewhere."
"This is the result of monopoly," thought Birotteau.
"Popole!--that's my godson,--he must have got into mischief. Have you
come about him, my worthy magistrate?" she said, softening her voice.
"No; I had the honor to tell you that I came as a customer."
"Well, well! and what's your name, my lad? Haven't seen you about
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: when she could have cried with happiness and rage.
Business quickened, it seemed, toward five, as if the town did wake
up; she had therefore more to do, and she went through it with
little sharp stampings and jerkings: she made the crisp postal-
orders fairly snap while she breathed to herself "It's the last
day--the last day!" The last day of what? She couldn't have told.
All she knew now was that if she WERE out of the cage she wouldn't
in the least have minded, this time, its not yet being dark. She
would have gone straight toward Park Chambers and have hung about
there till no matter when. She would have waited, stayed, rung,
asked, have gone in, sat on the stairs. What the day was the last
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