| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Duchesse de Langeais by Honore de Balzac: of chess."
Thenceforward he hid his agitation by complete composure. No man
is strong enough to bear such sudden alternations from the height
of happiness to the depths of wretchedness. So he had caught a
glimpse of happy life the better to feel the emptiness of his
previous existence? There was a terrible storm within him; but
he had learned to endure, and bore the shock of tumultuous
thoughts as a granite cliff stands out against the surge of an
angry sea.
"I could say nothing. When I am with her my wits desert me.
She does not know how vile and contemptible she is. Nobody has
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: And that money-winning business is really a blot. You don't,
of course, see many Middlemarch people: but Mr. Ladislaw, who is
constantly seeing Mr. Brooke, is a great friend of Mr. Farebrother's
old ladies, and would be glad to sing the Vicar's praises.
One of the old ladies--Miss Noble, the aunt--is a wonderfully
quaint picture of self-forgetful goodness, and Ladislaw gallants
her about sometimes. I met them one day in a back street:
you know Ladislaw's look--a sort of Daphnis in coat and waistcoat;
and this little old maid reaching up to his arm--they looked
like a couple dropped out of a romantic comedy. But the best
evidence about Farebrother is to see him and hear him."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: before I could show myself even there pride suggested
that I should do something to repair my clothes. I
stopped, and scraped and brushed them; and, at the same
time, did what I could to compose my features. Then I
advanced to the door and knocked. Almost on the instant
the landlord's voice cried from the inside, 'Enter,
Monsieur!'
I raised the latch and went in. The man was alone,
squatting over the fire warming his hands. A black pot
simmered on the ashes, As I entered he raised the lid
and peeped inside. Then he glanced over his shoulder.
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