| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: invested all the proceeds in the Shepherd's Calendar, and began it
upon a large scale. Millions of copies of this work are sold annually
in France. It is printed upon even coarser paper than the Almanac of
Liege, a ream (five hundred sheets) costing in the first instance
about four francs; while the printed sheets sell at the rate of a
halfpenny apiece--twenty-five francs per ream.
Mme. Sechard determined to use one hundred reams for the first
impression; fifty thousand copies would bring in two thousand francs.
A man so deeply absorbed in his work as David in his researches is
seldom observant; yet David, taking a look round his workshop, was
astonished to hear the groaning of a press and to see Cerizet always
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: The obsequies that I for thee will keepe,
Nightly shall be, to strew thy graue, and weepe.
Whistle Boy.
The Boy giues warning, something doth approach,
What cursed foot wanders this wayes to night,
To crosse my obsequies, and true loues right?
What with a Torch? Muffle me night a while.
Enter Romeo, and Peter.
Rom. Giue me that Mattocke, & the wrenching Iron,
Hold take this Letter, early in the morning
See thou deliuer it to my Lord and Father,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pocket Diary Found in the Snow by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: considerable land."
"Has she any relatives?"
"No," replied Fellner harshly. But a thought must have flashed
through his brain for he started suddenly and murmured, "Yes, she
has one relative, a step-brother."
The detective gave an exclamation of surprise.
"Why are you astonished at this?" asked Fellner.
"According to her notebook, the young lady does not seem to know of
this step-brother."
"She does not know, sir. There was an ugly scandal in her family
before her birth. Her father turned his first wife and their son
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