| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: publishers of important ecclesiastical works; but he kept the
editorship, with a share of the profits as founder. The commercial
interest appealed to Dole, to Dijon, to Salins, to Neufchatel, to the
Jura, Bourg, Nantua, Lous-le-Saulnier. The concurrence was invited of
the learning and energy of every scientific student in the districts
of le Bugey, la Bresse, and Franche Comte. By the influence of
commercial interests and common feeling, five hundred subscribers were
booked in consideration of the low price; the /Review/ cost eight
francs a quarter.
To avoid hurting the conceit of the provincials by refusing their
articles, the lawyer hit on the good idea of suggesting a desire for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Jolly Corner by Henry James: and what they were "at" him for, daily, with the iteration of
people who couldn't for their life understand a man's liability to
decent feelings. He had found the place, just as it stood and
beyond what he could express, an interest and a joy. There were
values other than the beastly rent-values, and in short, in short -
! But it was thus Miss Staverton took him up. "In short you're to
make so good a thing of your sky-scraper that, living in luxury on
THOSE ill-gotten gains, you can afford for a while to be
sentimental here!" Her smile had for him, with the words, the
particular mild irony with which he found half her talk suffused;
an irony without bitterness and that came, exactly, from her having
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie: her and chained her up in the yard, and so all the children flew
away."
"It's an awfully good story," said Nibs.
"They flew away," Wendy continued, "to the Neverland, where the
lost children are."
"I just thought they did," Curly broke in excitedly. "I don't
know how it is, but I just thought they did!"
"O Wendy," cried Tootles, "was one of the lost children called
Tootles?"
"Yes, he was."
"I am in a story. Hurrah, I am in a story, Nibs."
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