| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: chamber well nigh blind with weariness and crushed by the weight of
all that I had suffered on that eventful day. The dawn was flaring
in the eastern sky, and by its glimmer I found my path down the
empty corridors, till at length I came to the curtains of my
sleeping place. I drew them and passed through. There, far up the
room, the faint light gleaming on her snowy dress, her raven hair
and ornaments of gold, stood Otomie my bride.
I went towards her, and as I came she glided to meet me with
outstretched arms. Presently they were about my neck and her kiss
was on my brow.
'Now all is done, my love and lord,' she whispered, 'and come good
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Alkahest by Honore de Balzac: town whose local patriotism and desire for glory exceed those of other
places, not to be readily accepted, and it produced on all minds a
reaction in favor of Balthazar.
The supposition of his wife was, to a certain extent, well-founded.
Several artificers of various trades had long been at work in the
garret of the front house, where Balthazar went early every morning.
After remaining, at first, for several hours, an absence to which his
wife and household grew gradually accustomed, he ended by being there
all day. But--unexpected shock!--Madame Claes learned through the
humiliating medium of some women friends, who showed surprise at her
ignorance, that her husband constantly imported instruments of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: only considered me as the sufferer, I put on an air of
resolution, and even of content, sufficient to encourage her.
"`What is there in my lot to lament?' said I; `I possess all
that I have ever desired. You love me, Manon, do you not? What
happiness beyond this have I ever longed for? Let us leave to
Providence the direction of our destiny; it by no means appears
to me so desperate. The governor is civil and obliging; he has
already given us marks of his consideration; he will not allow us
to want for necessaries. As to our rude hut and the squalidness
of our furniture, you might have noticed that there are few
persons in the colony better lodged or more comfortably furnished
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