| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: consultation.--He begs to know, whether after the ceremony of marriage, and
before that of consummation, the baptizing all the Homunculi at once,
slapdash, by injection, would not be a shorter and safer cut still; on
condition, as above, That if the Homunculi do well, and come safe into the
world after this, that each and every of them shall be baptized again (sous
condition)--And provided, in the second place, That the thing can be done,
which Mr Shandy apprehends it may, par le moyen d'une petite canulle, and
sans faire aucune tort au pere.
Chapter 1.XXI.
--I wonder what's all that noise, and running backwards and forwards for,
above stairs, quoth my father, addressing himself, after an hour and a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Chouans by Honore de Balzac: creature he could scarcely even then renounce. Neither of these proud
natures yielded. The marquis may have looked for a tear, but the eyes
of the girl were dry and scornful. Then he turned quickly, and left
the victim to Pille-Miche.
"God will hear me, marquis," she called. "I will ask Him to give you a
glorious day without a morrow."
Pille-Miche, not a little embarrassed with so rich a prize, dragged her
away with some gentleness and a mixture of respect and scorn. The
marquis, with a sigh, re-entered the dining-room, his face like that
of a dead man whose eyes have not been closed.
Merle's presence was inexplicable to the silent spectators of this
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: wife. She had been quite convinced that an engagement with him
and at last a marriage had exactly that quality of compromise
which distinguishes the ways of the wise. It would be the
wrappered world almost at its best. She saw herself building up
a life upon that--a life restrained, kindly, beautiful, a little
pathetic and altogether dignified; a life of great disciplines
and suppressions and extensive reserves. . .
But the Ramage affair needed clearing up, of course; it was a
flaw upon that project. She had to explain about and pay off
that forty pounds. . . .
Then, quite insensibly, her queenliness had declined. She was
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