| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: "Joined," said Wayland, "to a gnawing pain in the stomach, and a
low fever?"
"Even so," said the messenger, somewhat surprised.
"I know how the disease is caused," said the artist, "and I know
the cause. Your master has eaten of the manna of Saint Nicholas.
I know the cure too--my master shall not say I studied in his
laboratory for nothing."
"How mean you?" said Tressilian, frowning; "we speak of one of
the first nobles of England. Bethink you, this is no subject for
buffoonery."
"God forbid!" said Wayland Smith. "I say that I know this
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac: voice.
Diane had disappeared. The crack of the postilion's whip told
Victurnien that the fair romance of his first love was over. While
peril lasted, Diane could still see her lover in the young Count; but
out of danger, she despised him for the weakling that he was.
Six months afterwards, Camusot received the appointment of assistant
judge at Paris, and later he became an examining magistrate. Goodman
Blondet was made a councillor to the Royal-Court; he held the post
just long enough to secure a retiring pension, and then went back to
live in his pretty little house. Joseph Blondet sat in his father's
seat at the court till the end of his days; there was not the faintest
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: bodily disturbance. I suspect an intellectual disturbance."
He paused.
"There was," said the bishop.
"You were no longer at home anywhere. You were no longer at
home in your diocese, in your palace, in your body, in your
convictions. And then came the war. Quite apart from everything
else the mind of the whole world is suffering profoundly from the
shock of this war--much more than is generally admitted. One
thing you did that you probably did not observe yourself doing,
you drank rather more at your meals, you smoked a lot more. That
was your natural and proper response to the shock."
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