| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: bedroom, which the duke had left partially open.
"Dear Benjamin," said the duke, softening his voice, "I have selected
that tall and handsome young lady as your wife; she is heiress to the
estates of the younger branch of the house of Grandlieu, a fine old
family of Bretagne. Therefore make yourself agreeable; remember all
the love-making you have read of in your books, and learn to make
pretty speeches."
"Father, is it not the first duty of a nobleman to keep his word?"
"Yes."
"Well, then, on the day when I forgave you the death of my mother,
dying here through her marriage with you, did you not promise me never
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: Whereat I made no sign and turned away,
Affrighted and yet glad and full of dreams.
Ah, dreams and dreams that asked no answering!
I should have wrought to make my dreams come true,
But all my life was like an autumn day,
Full of gray quiet and a hazy peace.
What was I saying? All is gone again.
It seemed but now I was the little child
Who played within a garden long ago.
Beyond the walls the festal trumpets blared.
Perhaps they carried some Madonna by
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: door.
But Orde thrust his foot and knee in the opening.
"I'll come in and wait," said he quietly.
"Yes, sir, this way, sir," said Mallock, trying to indicate the
dining-room, where he wished Orde to sit until he could come at his
master's wishes in the matter.
Orde caught the aroma of tobacco and the glimmer of light to the
left. Without reply he turned the knob of the door and entered the
library.
There he found Newmark in evening dress, seated in a low easy chair
beneath a lamp, smoking, and reading a magazine. At Orde's
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