| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: One of his particular graces was the air and manner (imitated, no
doubt, from Mole) with which he took snuff from a gold box adorned
with the portrait of the Princess Goritza,--a charming Hungarian,
celebrated for her beauty in the last years of the reign of Louis XV.
Having been attached during his youth to that illustrious stranger, he
still mentioned her with emotion. For her sake he had fought a duel
with Monsieur de Lauzun.
The chevalier, now fifty-eight years of age, owned to only fifty; and
he might well allow himself that innocent deception, for, among the
other advantages granted to fair thin persons, he managed to preserve
the still youthful figure which saves men as well as women from an
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: me as the man to whom Marguerite owed her position. It was to him
that she had closed her doors the night before; I imagined that
she had stopped her carriage in order to explain to him why she
had done so, and I hoped that at the same time she had found some
new pretext for not receiving him on the following night.
How I spent the rest of the day I do not know; I walked, smoked,
talked, but what I said, whom I met, I had utterly forgotten by
ten o'clock in the evening.
All I remember is that when I returned home, I spent three hours
over my toilet, and I looked at my watch and my clock a hundred
times, which unfortunately both pointed to the same hour.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: guided that gate, neither."
The Dwarf turned his rage on the young farmer; and, by a sudden
effort, far more powerful than Hobbie expected from such a
person, freed his wrist from his grasp, and offered the dagger at
his heart. All this was done in the twinkling of an eye, and the
incensed Recluse might have completed his vengeance by plunging
the weapon in Elliot's bosom, had he not been checked by an
internal impulse which made him hurl the knife to a distance.
"No," he exclaimed, as he thus voluntarily deprived himself of
the means of gratifying his rage; "not again--not again!"
Hobbie retreated a step or two in great surprise, discomposure,
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