| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac: with great lords of the realm.
It grieved the Marquis that he could send but one servant with his
son; but he gave him his own valet Josephin, a man who can be trusted
to take care of his young master, and to watch faithfully over his
interests. The poor father must do without Josephin, and hope to
replace him with a young lad.
"Remember that you are a Carol, my boy," he said; "remember that you
come of an unalloyed descent, and that your scutcheon bears the motto
Cil est nostre; with such arms you may hold your head high everywhere,
and aspire to queens. Render grace to your father, as I to mine. We
owe it to the honor of our ancestors, kept stainless until now, that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: the forgetful child, half wondering, checks with every word
and action the outpouring of her maternal love! How bitter
and restless the memories that they leave behind! And for
the rest, what else has she? - to watch them with eager eyes
as they go to school, to sit in church where she can see them
every Sunday, to be passed some day unnoticed in the street,
or deliberately cut because the great man or the great woman
are with friends before whom they are ashamed to recognise
the old woman that loved them.
When she goes home that night, how lonely will the room
appear to her! Perhaps the neighbours may hear her sobbing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Slowly the little cavalcade rode down from the castle of
Blentz toward the village. Just out of sight of the grim pile
where the road wound down into a ravine Barney turned
his horse's head up the narrow defile. In single file Butzow
and the troopers followed until the rank undergrowth pre-
cluded farther advance. Here the American directed that
they dismount, and, leaving the horses in charge of three
troopers, set out once more with the balance of the com-
pany on foot.
It was with difficulty that the men forced their way
through the bushes, but they had not gone far when their
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