| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: Monsieur de Marsay,' said she; 'you have deceived me horribly.'--
'Surely,' I replied, taking up a submissive attitude, 'Madame la
Duchesse will not remember Charlotte's grievances?'--'Certainly,' she
answered bitterly.--'Then, in fact, you hate me?'--She bowed, and I
said to myself, 'There is something still left!'
"The feeling she had when I parted from her allowed her to believe
that she still had something to avenge. Well, my friends, I have
carefully studied the lives of men who have had great success with
women, but I do not believe that the Marechal de Richelieu, or Lauzun,
or Louis de Valois ever effected a more judicious retreat at the first
attempt. As to my mind and heart, they were cast in a mould then and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: away, and what was left, which is now called the Monte Somma,
stands in a half circle round the new cone and new crater which is
burning at this very day. True, after that eruption which killed
Pliny, Vesuvius fell asleep again, and did not awake for 134
years, and then again for 269 years but it has been growing more
and more restless as the ages have passed on, and now hardly a
year passes without its sending out smoke and stones from its
crater, and streams of lava from its sides.
And now, I suppose, you will want to know what a volcano is like,
and what a cone, and a crater, and lava are?
What a volcano is like, it is easy enough to show you; for they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: has altered! Except Margaret. She's grown quite pretty. The last
time I saw her - twenty years ago, she was a fright in flannel.
Positive fright, I assure you. The dear Duchess! and that sweet
Lady Agatha! Just the type of girl I like! Well, really,
Windermere, if I am to be the Duchess's sister-in-law
LORD WINDERMERE. [Sitting L. of her.] But are you - ?
[Exit MR. CECIL GRAHAM with rest of guests. LADY WINDERMERE
watches, with a look of scorn and pain, MRS. ERLYNNE and her
husband. They are unconscious of her presence.]
MRS. ERLYNNE. Oh, yes! He's to call to-morrow at twelve o'clock!
He wanted to propose to-night. In fact he did. He kept on
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