| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: "Cleverly played, abbe!" thought he. "But you've played into my
hands."
The foxy lawyer was more decided in his opinion than even the doctor.
He advised marriage in ten years. Inwardly he was vowing that the
whole Rogron fortune should go to Bathilde. He rubbed his hands, his
pinched lips closed more tightly as he hurried home. The influence
exercised by Monsieur Habert, physician of the soul, and by Vinet,
doctor of the purse, balanced each other perfectly. Rogron had no
piety in him; so the churchman and the man of law, the black-robed
pair, were fairly matched.
On discovering the victory obtained by Celeste, in her anxiety to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: In the man-devouring Wilderness?
What handful bled on Delhi ridge?
- See, rather, London, on thy bridge
The pale battalions trample by,
Resolved to slay, resigned to die.
Count, rather, all the maimed and dead
In the unbrotherly war of bread.
See, rather, under sultrier skies
What vegetable Londons rise,
And teem, and suffer without sound:
Or in your tranquil garden ground,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "Whenever we miss anything we look to see if Obadiah's black in the
face." She gave him another shake, and the quarter I had given him
shot out as if blown from a gun. Then we prepared to go back to
the station.
>From where I stood I could look into the cheery farm kitchen, where
Alison West and I had eaten our al fresco breakfast. I looked at
the table with mixed emotions, and then, gradually, the meaning of
something on it penetrated my mind. Still in its papers, evidently
just opened, was a hat box, and protruding over the edge of the box
was a streamer of vivid green
ribbon.
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