| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: in her which I had never before observed, and conferred with Mrs.
Roll on the matter. "She do be awake nights a deal, and that's the
reason," Mrs. Roll said. Her manner was the same in other respects.
She said she would not give me any thing for my wedding outfit, but
she paid my fare from Waterbury and back.
She could not spare me to go out, she told Mr. Uxbridge, and in
consequence I saw little of him while there.
In November we were married. Aunt Eliza was not at the wedding,
which was a quiet one. Mr. Uxbridge desired me to remain in
Waterbury till spring. He would not decide about taking a house in
New York till then; by that time his brother might return, and if
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: house or garden, provided only they could elude observation.
Anthony Foster had accustomed himself to consider his daughter as
a conscious sinner might regard a visible guardian angel, which,
notwithstanding his guilt, continued to hover around him; and
therefore his trust in her knew no bounds. Janet commanded her
own motions during the daytime, and had a master-key which opened
the postern door of the park, so that she could go to the village
at pleasure, either upon the household affairs, which were
entirely confided to her management, or to attend her devotions
at the meeting-house of her sect. It is true the daughter of
Foster was thus liberally entrusted under the solemn condition
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: than it is, so I go ahead and prophesy to the value of ten francs
for each subscription. There was one farmer who thought the paper
was agricultural because of its name. I Globed HIM. Bah! he gave
in at once; he had a projecting forehead; all men with projecting
foreheads are ideologists.
"But the 'Children'; oh! ah! as to the 'Children'! I got two
thousand between Paris and Blois. Jolly business! but there is not
much to say. You just show a little vignette to the mother,
pretending to hide it from the child: naturally the child wants to
see, and pulls mamma's gown and cries for its newspaper, because
'Papa has DOT his.' Mamma can't let her brat tear the gown; the
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