| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: Malo."
Thereupon Galope-Chopine, who was tired out, went to bed for an hour
or two, at the end of which time he again departed. Later, on the
following morning, he returned, having carefully fulfilled all the
commissions entrusted to him by the Gars. Finding that Marche-a-Terre
and Pille-Miche had not appeared at the cottage, he relieved the
apprehensions of his wife, who went off, reassured, to the rocks of
Saint-Sulpice, where she had collected the night before several piles
of fagots, now covered with hoarfrost. The boy went with her, carrying
fire in a broken wooden shoe.
Hardly had his wife and son passed out of sight behind the shed when
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: his hands; he saw nothing, heard nothing, thought nothing; he was
annihilated.
Several days were necessary to la Peyrade before he could even begin
to recover from the crushing blow which had struck him down. The shock
was terrible. Coming out of that golden dream which had shown him a
perspective of the future in so smiling an aspect, he found himself
fooled under conditions most cruel to his self-love, and to his
pretensions to depth and cleverness; irrevocably parted from the
Thuilliers; saddled with a hopeless debt of twenty-five thousand
francs to Madame Lambert, together with another of ten thousand to
Brigitte, which his dignity required him to pay with the least delay
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: Earl's order, remained that day of her death alone with her, with
one man only and Forster, who had that day forcibly sent away all
her servants from her to Abington market, about three miles
distant from this place; they (I say, whether first stifling her,
or else strangling her) afterwards flung her down a pair of
stairs and broke her neck, using much violence upon her; but,
however, though it was vulgarly reported that she by chance fell
downstairs (but still without hurting her hood that was upon her
head), yet the inhabitants will tell you there that she was
conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay, to another where
the bed's head of the chamber stood close to a privy postern
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