| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: which it was her present inclination to commend. He was conscious
he should have liked better to please her in some other way. The
lines of her face were those of a woman grown, but the child
lingered on in her complexion and in the sweetness of her mouth.
Above all she was natural - that was indubitable now; more natural
than he had supposed at first, perhaps on account of her aesthetic
toggery, which was conventionally unconventional, suggesting what
he might have called a tortuous spontaneity. He had feared that
sort of thing in other cases, and his fears had been justified;
for, though he was an artist to the essence, the modern reactionary
nymph, with the brambles of the woodland caught in her folds and a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: [C = Center, L = Left, R = Right]
[LADY WINDERMERE is at table R., arranging roses in a blue bowl.]
[Enter PARKER.]
PARKER. Is your ladyship at home this afternoon?
LADY WINDERMERE. Yes - who has called?
PARKER. Lord Darlington, my lady.
LADY WINDERMERE. [Hesitates for a moment.] Show him up - and I'm
at home to any one who calls.
PARKER. Yes, my lady.
[Exit C.]
LADY WINDERMERE. It's best for me to see him before to-night. I'm
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac: majority; no conflict of interests is, therefore, to be feared. A
mother-in-law and a son-in-law placed in such relations will form a
household of united interests. Madame Evangelista can make up for the
remaining deficit by paying a certain sum for her support from her
annuity, which will ease your way. We know that madame is too generous
and too large-minded to be willing to be a burden on her children. In
this way you can make one household, united and happy, and be able to
spend, in your own right, one hundred thousand francs a year. Is not
that sum sufficient, Monsieur le comte, to enjoy, in all countries,
the luxuries of life, and to satisfy all your wants and caprices?
Believe me, a young couple often feel the need of a third member of
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