| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: evidently must be so. You must live, too."
She said just what he had been telling himself a few moments
before, but he no longer thought so now and felt very
differently. He was not only ashamed, but felt sorry to lose all
he was losing with her. "I did not expect this," he said.
"Why should you live here and suffer? You have suffered enough."
"I have not suffered. It was good for me, and I should like to go
on serving you if I could."
"We do not want anything," she said, and looked at him.
"You have done so much for me as it is. If it had not been for
you--" She wished to say more, but her voice trembled.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of gratitude. Say that you will, Sola; tell me that you will."
"The great waterway which leads to Helium is but fifty
miles to the south," murmured Sola, half to herself; "a
swift thoat might make it in three hours; and then to
Helium it is five hundred miles, most of the way through
thinly settled districts. They would know and they would
follow us. We might hide among the great trees for a time,
but the chances are small indeed for escape. They would
follow us to the very gates of Helium, and they would take
toll of life at every step; you do not know them."
"Is there no other way we might reach Helium?" I asked.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: year the widow trembles for her vintage.
A straight path beneath the walls on either side of the garden
leads to a clump of lime-trees at the further end of it; LINE-
trees, as Mme. Vauquer persists in calling them, in spite of the
fact that she was a de Conflans, and regardless of repeated
corrections from her lodgers.
The central space between the walls is filled with artichokes and
rows of pyramid fruit-trees, and surrounded by a border of
lettuce, pot-herbs, and parsley. Under the lime-trees there are a
few green-painted garden seats and a wooden table, and hither,
during the dog-days, such of the lodgers as are rich enough to
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