| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: roofs and turning vanes into the wind and sun. There is a glad
spring bustle in the air, perhaps, and the lilacs are all in flower,
and the creepers green about the broken balustrade: but no spring
shall revive the honour of the place. Old women of the people,
little, children of the people, saunter and gambol in the walled
court or feed the ducks in the neglected moat. Plough-horses, mighty
of limb, browse in the long stables. The dial-hand on the clock
waits for some better hour. Out on the plain, where hot sweat
trickles into men's eyes, and the spade goes in deep and comes up
slowly, perhaps the peasant may feel a movement of joy at his heart
when he thinks that these spacious chimneys are now cold, which have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac: simultaneously looking at him.
"I have forgotten," said Monsieur Hermann, "the name of the other
young man. But the confidences which Prosper Magnan subsequently made
to me enabled me to know that his companion was dark, rather thin, and
jovial. I will, if you please, call him Wilhelm, to give greater
clearness to the tale I am about to tell you."
The worthy German resumed his narrative after having, without the
smallest regard for romanticism and local color, baptized the young
French surgeon with a Teutonic name.]
By the time the two young men reached Andernach the night was dark.
Presuming that they would lose much time in looking for their chiefs
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