| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: situation. He had a secret motive which she must respect.
She respected it.
The next day, July 25th, at three o'clock in the morning,
the tarantass arrived at Tioukalmsk, having accomplished
a distance of eighty miles since it had crossed the Ichim.
They rapidly changed horses. Here, however, for the first
time, the iemschik made difficulties about starting, declaring
that detachments of Tartars were roving across the steppe,
and that travelers, horses, and carriages would be a fine
prize for them.
Only by dint of a large bribe could Michael get over the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac: verdure. Often the witty man finds himself afflicted with a foolish
laugh which is his only answer to everything; his wit is, as it were,
suffocated beneath the icy pressure of his desires. It would not be
impossible for two beings of equal beauty, intelligence, and passion
to utter at first nothing but the most silly commonplaces, until
chance, a word, the tremor of a certain glance, the communication of a
spark, should have brought them to the happy transition which leads to
that flowery way in which one does not walk, but where one sways and
at the same time does not lapse.
Such a state of mind is always in proportion with the violence of the
feeling. Two creatures who love one another weakly feel nothing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White: extra long time, but when he raised his head his face had changed
complete.
"March!" says he very brisk.
We all went back to the shack. From the corral Tim took Texas
Pete's best team and hitched her to the old schooner.
"There," says he to the man. "Now you'd better hit the trail.
Take that whisky keg there for water. Good-bye."
We sat there without sayin' a word for some time after the
schooner had pulled out. Then Tim says, very abrupt:
"I've changed my mind."
He got up.
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