| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: the road on his black thoroughbred. The Colonel rose and walked out to the
hitching-block, where Clarke had reined in his fiery steed.
"Ah, Alfred. Been out for a ride?"
"Yes, I have been giving Roger a little exercise."
"That's a magnificent animal. I never get tired watching him move. He's the
best bit of horseflesh on the river. By the way, we have not seen much of you
since the siege. Of course you have been busy. Getting ready to put on the
harness, eh? Well, that's what we want the young men to do. Come over and see
us."
"I have been trying to come. You know how it is with me--about Betty, I mean.
Col. Zane, I--I love her. That's all."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: smiling at me with her reddened eyes. Her white face,
in the frame of her mantilla, looked longer, leaner than usual.
I had had an idea that she would be a good deal disgusted
with me--would consider that I ought to have been on the spot
to advise her, to help her; and, though I was sure there
was no rancor in her composition and no great conviction
of the importance of her affairs, I had prepared myself
for a difference in her manner, for some little injured look,
half-familiar, half-estranged, which should say to my conscience,
"Well, you are a nice person to have professed things!"
But historic truth compels me to declare that Tita Bordereau's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: seeing him. He at once hired a vehicle with a fairly good horse, to
drive to Saint-Leu-Taverny, and he offered Madame Crochard and her
daughter seats by his side. The mother accepted without ado; but
presently, when they were already on the way to Saint-Denis, she was
by way of having scruples, and made a few civil speeches as to the
possible inconvenience two women might cause their companion.
"Perhaps, monsieur, you wished to drive alone to Saint-Leu-Taverny,"
said she, with affected simplicity.
Before long she complained of the heat, and especially of her cough,
which, she said, had hindered her from closing her eyes all night; and
by the time the carriage had reached Saint-Denis, Madame Crochard
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