| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac: brilliancy. As to the private apartment of Mademoiselle Gamard, no one
had ever been permitted to look into it. Conjecture alone suggested
that it was full of odds and ends, worn-out furniture, and bits of
stuff and pieces dear to the hearts of all old maids.
Such was the woman destined to exert a vast influence on the last
years of the Abbe Birotteau.
For want of exercising in nature's own way the activity bestowed upon
women, and yet impelled to spend it in some way or other, Mademoiselle
Gamard had acquired the habit of using it in petty intrigues,
provincial cabals, and those self-seeking schemes which occupy, sooner
or later, the lives of all old maids. Birotteau, unhappily, had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: was called, and the union won. We recovered our raise in pay and
signed a new contract. The strike was off in September after two
long months of idleness, and within a few days after the dust had
settled we smelt the fireworks of political oratory. I am telling
it now as it appeared to me then, and of course I beg the
indulgence of those concerned.
Bryan, the bearcat of the Nebraska ranches, had roared with his
ears back, and the land was in a tumult. "Coin's Financial
School" had already taught the people that the "gold-bugs" owned
the country and that the people could save themselves from
eternal serfdom only by changing the color of their money. Bryan
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued
through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he
gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due
to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any
departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a
living God always ascribe to him? Fondly do we hope--fervently
do we pray--that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by
the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil
shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn by the lash
shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said
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