| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Drama on the Seashore by Honore de Balzac: them the appearance of great white roses, floating on the liquid
surface or resting on the shore. Seeing this barren tract with the
ocean on one side, and on the other the arm of the sea which runs up
between Croisic and the rocky shore of Guerande, at the base of which
lay the salt marshes, denuded of vegetation, I looked at Pauline and
asked her if she felt the courage to face the burning sun and the
strength to walk through sand.
"I have boots," she said. "Let us go," and she pointed to the tower of
Batz, which arrested the eye by its immense pile placed there like a
pyramid; but a slender, delicately outlined pyramid, a pyramid so
poetically ornate that the imagination figured in it the earliest ruin
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: pictured the story.
The old soldier's eyes gleamed. "I'll run twice as many copies as
usual. We'll plaster the state with them, calling for mass
meetings everywhere to insist on the legislature passing our
bill."
"Go easy, gentlemen," advised Rogers. "If it's true we hold a
trump card, but we want to play it mighty carefully so as to make
it carry as much dynamite as possible."
The company could give no information more definite than that the
message had come from the _Bellingham,_ which was still a couple
of hundred miles out at sea.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: mandarin spending several thousand pounds to console his white man?
Well, there she is. The old mandarin's sons have inherited her,
and Davidson with her; and he commands her; and what with his
salary and trading privileges he makes a lot of money; and
everything is as before; and Davidson even smiles - you have seen
it? Well, the smile's the only thing which isn't as before."
"Tell me, Hollis," I asked, "what do you mean by good in this
connection?"
"Well, there are men who are born good just as others are born
witty. What I mean is his nature. No simpler, more scrupulously
delicate soul had ever lived in such a - a - comfortable envelope.
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