| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: "I mean afterwards."
The Master wondered. "After my wife's death?"
"When this idea came to you."
"Ah never, never! I wanted to save you, rare and precious as you
are."
Poor Overt looked hard at him. "Are you marrying Miss Fancourt to
save me?"
"Not absolutely, but it adds to the pleasure. I shall be the
making of you," St. George smiled. "I was greatly struck, after
our talk, with the brave devoted way you quitted the country, and
still more perhaps with your force of character in remaining
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare: SCHOOLMASTER.
Thou, doughtie Duke, all haile: all haile, sweet Ladies.
THESEUS.
This is a cold beginning.
SCHOOLMASTER.
If you but favour, our Country pastime made is.
We are a few of those collected here,
That ruder Tongues distinguish villager;
And to say veritie, and not to fable,
We are a merry rout, or else a rable,
Or company, or, by a figure, Choris,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Hidden Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac: here and there to all parts of the picture. Here two strokes of the
brush, there one, but each so telling that together they brought out a
new painting,--a painting steeped, as it were, in light. He worked
with such passionate ardor that the sweat rolled in great drops from
his bald brow; and his motions seemed to be jerked out of him with
such rapidity and impatience that the young Poussin fancied a demon,
encased with the body of this singular being, was working his hands
fantastically like those of a puppet without, or even against, the
will of their owner. The unnatural brightness of his eyes, the
convulsive movements which seemed the result of some mental
resistance, gave to this fancy of the youth a semblance of truth which
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