| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: was dancing, and betrayed some strong feeling. His slender, easy frame
recalled the noble proportions of the Apollo. Fine black hair curled
naturally over a high forehead. At a glance Mademoiselle de Fontaine
observed that his linen was fine, his gloves fresh, and evidently
bought of a good maker, and his feet were small and well shod in boots
of Irish kid. He had none of the vulgar trinkets displayed by the
dandies of the National Guard or the Lovelaces of the counting-house.
A black ribbon, to which an eye-glass was attached, hung over a
waistcoat of the most fashionable cut. Never had the fastidious Emilie
seen a man's eyes shaded by such long, curled lashes. Melancholy and
passion were expressed in this face, and the complexion was of a manly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: paper and he was opening it, she had become aware that the
visitor had followed her into the library, and she had slipped
out, leaving the two gentlemen together.
"But then, if you left them in the library, how do you know that
they went out of the house?"
This question plunged the witness into momentary
inarticulateness, from which she was rescued by Trimmle, who, by
means of ingenious circumlocutions, elicited the statement that
before she could cross the hall to the back passage she had heard
the gentlemen behind her, and had seen them go out of the front
door together.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: "O Wendy," cried Tootles, "was one of the lost children called
Tootles?"
"Yes, he was."
"I am in a story. Hurrah, I am in a story, Nibs."
"Hush. Now I want you to consider the feelings of the unhappy
parents with all their children flown away."
"Oo!" they all moaned, though they were not really considering
the feelings of the unhappy parents one jot.
"Think of the empty beds!"
"Oo!"
"It's awfully sad," the first twin said cheerfully.
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