| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: and Spain. As I happened to be wearing spurs I have myself out for a
colonel of cavalry: pure nonsense!"
"Tell me," said Moreau, "what did this traveller you take to be
Monsieur le comte look like?"
"Face like a brick," said Georges, "hair snow-white, and black
eyebrows."
"That is he!"
"Then I'm lost!" exclaimed Georges.
"Why?"
"Oh, I chaffed him about his decorations."
"Pooh! he's a good fellow; you probably amused him. Come at once to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The First Men In The Moon by H. G. Wells: "I told him not; that it was never cold enough for that, because our
nights were so short.
"'Not even liquefy?'
"I was about to say 'No,' but then it occurred to me that one part at
least of our atmosphere, the water vapour of it, does sometimes liquefy
and form dew, and sometimes freeze and form frost - a process perfectly
analogous to the freezing of all the external atmosphere of the moon
during its longer night. I made myself clear on this point, and from that
the Grand Lunar went on to speak with me of sleep. For the need of sleep
that comes so regularly every twenty-four hours to all things is part also
of our earthly inheritance. On the moon they rest only at rare intervals,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: this morning for a minute that I actually saw my
poor dear husband looking at me out of that blessed
child's eyes."
Grandmother Wheeler smiled her little, aggra-
vating, curved, pink smile.
But even Mrs. Diantha began to notice the change
for the better in Amelia. She, however, attributed
it to an increase of appetite and a system of deep
breathing which she had herself taken up and en-
joined Amelia to follow. Amelia was following Lily
Jennings instead, but that her mother did not know.
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