| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac: Some slim and jaunty officer, with a well-frizzed moustache, who can
play the piano, quote Lord Byron, and ride a horse elegantly, may get
her away from me. What shall I do? For Heaven's sake, give me some
advice!"
The honest man, that species of puritan not unlike the father of
Jeannie Deans, of whom I have already told you, and who, up to the
present moment hadn't uttered a word, shrugged his shoulders, as he
looked at me and said:--
"Idiot! why did you ask him if he came from Beauvais?"
ADDENDUM
The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: it," Stephen Wheaton said.
"There ain't going to be any mystery. Christo-
pher has got a right to live awhile on Silver Mountain
if he wants to," returned Myrtle with her odd,
defiant air.
"But I will take the things up there to him, if you
will let me have a horse and wagon," said Stephen.
"I will, and be glad. When will you go?"
"To-morrow."
"I'll have them ready," said Myrtle.
After the minister had gone she went into her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey: threaded a way over masses of fallen cliff, until he reached the base of
the wall. The tracks of the wildhorse band were very fresh and plain in
the yellow trail. Four stout posts guarded the opening, and a number of
bars lay ready to be pushed into place. He put them up, making a gate
ten feet high, an impregnable barrier. This done, he hurried back to
camp.
"Jack, Bolly will need more watching to-day than the sheep, unless I let
her loose. Why, she pulls and strains so she'll break that halter."
"She wants to go with the band; isn't that it?"
"I don't like to think so. But Father Naab doesn't trust Bolly, though
she's the best mustang he ever broke."
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