| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: The cardinal's order was pressing; Guenaud quickly obeyed
it. He found his patient stretched on his bed, his legs
swelled, his face livid, and his stomach collapsed. Mazarin
had a severe attack of gout. He suffered tortures with the
impatience of a man who has not been accustomed to
resistances. On seeing Guenaud: "Ah!" said he; "now I am
saved!"
Guenaud was a very learned and circumspect man, who stood in
no need of the critiques of Boileau to obtain a reputation.
When facing a disease, if it were personified in a king, he
treated the patient as a Turk treats a Moor. He did not,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon: tage. I knew two, that were competitors for the
secretary's place in Queen Elizabeth's time, and
yet kept good quarter between themselves; and
would confer, one with another, upon the busi-
ness; and the one of them said, That to be a secre-
tary, in the declination of a monarchy, was a
ticklish thing, and that he did not affect it: the
other straight caught up those words, and dis-
coursed with divers of his friends, that he had no
reason to desire to be secretary, in the declination
of a monarchy. The first man took hold of it, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: gentleman?' concluded the visitor, looking keenly in
Somerset's face.
'I am an artist,' replied the young man lightly.
'And these,' observed the other, taking a side glance through
the open door of the dining-room, which they were then
passing, 'these are some of your works. Very remarkable.'
And he again and still more sharply peered into the
countenance of the young man.
Somerset, unable to suppress a blush, made the more haste to
lead his visitor upstairs and to display the apartments.
'Excellent,' observed the stranger, as he looked from one of
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