| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: Do you want to know the reason of it all? Well, I was afraid that I
was not loved; and indeed I was half-way between repentance and the
shame of going back. I read the newspapers, and saw that there was a
first night at the Varietes, and I thought you had meant to give the
dinner to a collaborator. Left to myself, I gave way, I dressed to
hurry out after you--poor pet.'
"Du Bruel looked at me triumphantly, not a vestige of a recollection
of his orations /contra Tullia/ in his mind.
" 'Well, dearest, I have not spoken to any one of them,' he said.
" 'How well we understand each other!' quoth she.
"Even as she uttered those bewildering sweet words, I caught sight of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: If you have sworn any oaths they are broken by God. The empire of
the Aztecs is at an end, their king is my prisoner, their great
city is a ruin. The true God has triumphed over these devils by my
hand. Their wealth is my lawful spoil, and I must have it to pay
my gallant comrades who cannot grow rich on desolation. Think
again.'
'I know nothing of this treasure, general.'
'Yet memory sometimes wakens, traitor. I have said that you shall
die if yours should fail you, and so you shall to be sure. But
death is not always swift. There are means, doubtless you who have
lived in Spain have heard of them,' and he arched his brows and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Human Drift by Jack London: saddest and most pitiful face I have ever seen. He went back into
his dressing room and sat down.
"Poor Bill!" one of my seconds said. "He's been fair starving
these last weeks. And I've got it straight, the landlord chucks
him out if he loses to-night."
Then the call came and we went into the ring. Bill was desperate.
He fought like a tiger, a madman. He was fair crazy. He was
fighting for more than I was fighting for. I was a rising
fighter, and I was fighting for the money and the recognition.
But Bill was fighting for life--for the life of his loved ones.
Well, condition told. The strength went out of him, and I was
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