| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: of the mother. All mankind owe her a debt of gratitude
because she brought some comfort into the life of the poor
madman who wore the crown of France.
Born (May 1391) of such a noble stock, Charles was to know
from the first all favours of nature and art. His father's
gardens were the admiration of his contemporaries; his
castles were situated in the most agreeable parts of France,
and sumptuously adorned. We have preserved, in an inventory
of 1403, the description of tapestried rooms where Charles
may have played in childhood. (1) "A green room, with the
ceiling full of angels, and the DOSSIER of shepherds and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: She had overlooked the fact that, in coming as a boy among
other boys, she would be treated as a boy. The slight,
though of her own causing, and self-explanatory, she
was unable to dismiss as unwittingly shown, so sensitive
had the situation made her.
Women have done much for themselves in histrionic dress.
To look far below those who, like a certain fair
personator of Polly Peachum early in the last century,
and another of Lydia Languish early in this, [1] have
won not only love but ducal coronets into the bargain,
whole shoals of them have reached to the initial
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: place might suit me."
Again that basilisk glance seemed to pierce her through.
"You speak like an educated girl?"
Glibly enough, Tuppence ran through her imaginary career on the
lines suggested by Mr. Carter. It seemed to her, as she did so,
that the tension of Mrs. Vandemeyer's attitude relaxed.
"I see," she remarked at length. "Is there anyone I can write to
for a reference?"
"I lived last with a Miss Dufferin, The Parsonage, Llanelly. I
was with her two years."
"And then you thought you would get more money by coming to
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