| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: at once what a damned ass I'd been!" She tried a smile, and
it seemed to pass muster with him, for he sent it back in a
broad beam. "That's not so difficult to see? No, I admit it
doesn't take a microscope. But you were so wise and
wonderful--you always are. I've been mad these last days,
simply mad--you and she might well have washed your hands of
me! And instead, it's all right--all right!"
She drew back a little, trying to keep the smile on her lips
and not let him get the least glimpse of what it hid. Now
if ever, indeed, it behoved her to be wise and wonderful!
"I'm so glad, dear; so glad. If only you'll always feel
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: decency to speak to his wife or to dine at home, she was only too well
pleased to inflict her company upon him, with her acid-sweet remarks
and the intolerable dulness of her narrow-minded circle, and she tried
to put him in the wrong before the servants and her charitable
friends.
When, at this time, the post of President in a provincial court was
offered to the Comte de Granville, who was in high favor, he begged to
be allowed to remain in Paris. This refusal, of which the Keeper of
the Seals alone knew the reasons, gave rise to extraordinary
conjectures on the part of the Countess' intimate friends and of her
director. Granville, a rich man with a hundred thousand francs a year,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: to itself. These little bodies will all grow up and become men and
women, and have heaps of fun; nay, and are having it now; and
whatever happens to the fashion of the age, it makes no difference
- there are always high and brave and amusing lives to be lived;
and a change of key, however exotic, does not exclude melody. Even
Chinamen, hard as we find it to believe, enjoy being Chinese. And
the Chinaman stands alone to be unthinkable; natural enough, as the
representative of the only other great civilisation. Take my
people here at my doors; their life is a very good one; it is quite
thinkable, quite acceptable to us. And the little dears will be
soon skating on the other foot; sooner or later, in each
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