| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: he remembers it."
"You told him what?"
"That he was mean, cowardly, and silly."
"Good God!" cried Raoul, "is it possible that such words
should have issued from your mouth?"
"Perhaps I don't give the letter of my speech, but I give
the sense of it."
"But did not the king have you arrested immediately?"
"By whom? It was I who commanded the musketeers; he must
have commanded me to convey myself to prison; I would never
have consented: I would have resisted myself. And then I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: where to begin her search, when the Sparrow spoke again.
"It looks like we got a long hunt," whispered the Sparrow; "but a
few minutes before you came, a guy with a lantern comes from over
across the yard there and nosed around that shed, and acted kind
of queer, and I could see him stick his head up against them side
doors there as though he was listenin' for something inside. Does
that wise you up to anything?"
"Yes!" she breathed tensely. "That was the watchman. He's one of
them. The man we want is in that shed beyond a doubt. Hurry,
Marty - hurry!"
They ran together now, and reached the double side-door. It was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac: head and glistening fringe of iron-gray hair that surrounded it--this
baldness and the round outlines of his face made his head look very
like a ball. His complexion was brick-red, a few wrinkles had gathered
about his eyes, but he had the smooth, plump hands of a stout man. His
blue cloth coat, a little rubbed and worn, and the creases and
shininess of his trousers, traces of hard wear that the clothes-brush
fails to remove, would impress a superficial observer with the idea
that here was a thrifty and upright human being, sufficient of the
philosopher or of the aristocrat to wear shabby clothes. But,
unluckily, it is easy to find penny-wise people who will prove weak,
wasteful, or incompetent in the capital things of life.
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