| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather:
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At dinner that day Alexandra said she
thought they must really manage to go over to
the Shabatas' that afternoon. "It's not often I
let three days go by without seeing Marie. She
will think I have forsaken her, now that my old
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: if this son had first renounced his mother, and if his mother
renounced him in her turn, it could occur only from the
most weighty motive. Ogareff had therefore no doubt that
the pretended Nicholas Korpanoff was Michael Strogoff,
courier of the Czar, seeking concealment under a false
name, and charged with some mission which it would have
been important for him to know. He therefore at once
gave orders for his pursuit. Then "Let this woman be
conducted to Tomsk," he said.
While the soldiers brutally dragged her off, he added be-
tween his teeth, "When the moment arrives I shall know
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac: princes parading before an awed assemblage. This silly fancy of a
Tourangean lad roused an ambition to which my nature and the
surrounding circumstances lent dignity. Who would not envy such
worship?--a magnificent repetition of which I saw a few months later,
when all Paris rushed to the feet of the Emperor on his return from
Elba. The sense of this dominion exercised over the masses, whose
feelings and whose very life are thus merged into one soul, dedicated
me then and thenceforth to glory, that priestess who slaughters the
Frenchmen of to-day as the Druidess once sacrificed the Gauls.
Suddenly I met the woman who was destined to spur these ambitious
desires and to crown them by sending me into the heart of royalty. Too
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