| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: sometimes, again, she was unendurable. Every one made excuses for her
inequality of temper, which had its source in sufferings at once
secret and known to all. The Comte de Kergarouet had some influence
over her, thanks to his increased prodigality, a kind of consolation
which rarely fails of its effect on a Parisian girl.
The first ball at which Mademoiselle de Fontaine appeared was at the
Neapolitan ambassador's. As she took her place in the first quadrille
she saw, a few yards away from her, Maximilien Longueville, who nodded
slightly to her partner.
"Is that young man a friend of yours?" she asked, with a scornful air.
"Only my brother," he replied.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: the curve of her slim young arms as she raised them to undo
her hair, pictured the sliding down of her dress to the
waist and then to the knees, and the whiteness of her feet
as she slipped across the floor to bed...
He stood up and shook himself with a yawn, throwing away the
end of his cigar. His glance, in following it, lit on the
telegram which had dropped to the floor. The sounds in the
next room had ceased, and once more he felt alone and
unhappy.
Opening the window, he folded his arms on the sill and
looked out on the vast light-spangled mass of the city, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: killed Jimmie?" she cried.
"No," his emphatic denial was prompt. "But I do believe that she
knows more of what transpired Monday night than she is willing to
admit. Is that not so, Barbara?"
"Yes," she acknowledged reluctantly.
"Does she know who poisoned Jimmie?"
"No - no!" Barbara rested a firm hand on his shoulder. "I swear
Helen does not know. You must believe me, Harry."
"She may not know," Kent spoke slowly. "But are you sure she does
not suspect some one?"
"Well, what if I do?" asked Helen quietly, and Kent, looking around,
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