| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Alkahest by Honore de Balzac: change, the motive of his constant seclusion. The Flemish husband
frowned, and replied:--
"My dear, you could not understand it."
Soon after, however, Josephine insisted on being told the secret,
gently complaining that she was not allowed to share all the thoughts
of one whose life she shared.
"Very well, since it interests you so much," said Balthazar, taking
his wife upon his knee and caressing her black hair, "I will tell you
that I have returned to the study of chemistry, and I am the happiest
man on earth."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: alarmed.
"My brother," continued she, "was not that my Lord Buckingham
whom I saw on the jetty this evening as we arrived?"
"Himself. Ah, I can understand how the sight of him struck you,"
replied Lord de Winter. "You came from a country where he must
be very much talked of, and I know that his armaments against
France greatly engage the attention of your friend the cardinal."
"My friend the cardinal!" cried Milady, seeing that on this point
as on the other Lord de Winter seemed well instructed.
"Is he not your friend?" replied the baron, negligently. "Ah,
pardon! I thought so; but we will return to my Lord Duke
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: so shalt Thou make their image to vanish out of the city."
Have we not seen that too, though, thank God, neither in England nor
in the United States?
And then? What then? None knows, and none can know.
The future of France and Spain, the future of the Tropical Republics
of Spanish America, is utterly blank and dark; not to be prophesied,
I hold, by mortal man, simply because we have no like cases in the
history of the past whereby to judge the tendencies of the present.
Will they revive? Under the genial influences of free institutions
will the good seed which is in them take root downwards, and bear
fruit upwards? and make them all what that fair France has been, in
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