| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: acquiesce in their notions of good faith and regular procedure.
Earnscliff now requested the assistance of a few of the party to
convey Miss Vere to her father's castle of Ellieslaw, to which
she was peremptory in desiring to be conducted. This was readily
granted; and five or six young men agreed to attend him as an
escort. Hobbie was not of the number. Almost heart-broken by
the events of the day, and his final disappointment, he returned
moodily home to take such measures as he could for the sustenance
and protection of his family, and to arrange with his neighbours
the farther steps which should be adopted for the recovery of
Grace Armstrong. The rest of the party dispersed in different
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: "She has missed me," said Rodolphe, pulling from his wound a stiletto,
which had been turned by one of the false ribs. "But a little higher
up it would have been deep in my heart.--I was wrong, Francesca," he
went on, remembering the name he had heard little Gina repeat several
times; "I owe her no grudge, do not scold her. The happiness of
speaking to you is well worth the prick of a stiletto. Only show me
the way out; I must get back to the Stopfer's house. Be easy; I shall
tell nothing."
Francesca, recovering from her astonishment, helped Rodolphe to rise,
and said a few words to Gina, whose eyes filled with tears. The two
girls made him sit down on a bench and take off his coat, his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Deserted Woman by Honore de Balzac: in a materialistic, selfish, and heartless philosophy, from which
impassioned souls shrink in horror.
As for Mme. de Beauseant, she doubtless did not imagine that her
friend's despair could drive him to suicide, when he had drunk deep of
love for nine years. Possibly she may have thought that she alone was
to suffer. At any rate, she did quite rightly to refuse the most
humiliating of all positions; a wife may stoop for weighty social
reasons to a kind of compromise which a mistress is bound to hold in
abhorrence, for in the purity of her passion lies all its
justification.
ANGOULEME, September 1832.
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