| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: charred ends of a fire he and she had made once here together, to
boil coffee and fry trout. She built another fire now, and when
the flames were going well, filled her flask-cup from the spring
and set it to heat. Meanwhile, she returned to nurse his head and
wound. Her cold water had stopped the bleeding. Then she poured
her brandy in the steaming cup, and, made rough by her desperate
helplessness, forced some between his lips and teeth.
Instantly, almost, she felt the tremble of life creeping back,
and as his deep eyes opened upon her she sat still and mute. But
the gaze seemed luminous with an unnoting calm, and she wondered
if perhaps he could not recognize her; she watched this internal
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: So between them love did shine,
That the turtle saw his right
Flaming in the phoenix' sight:
Either was the other's mine.
Property was thus appall'd,
That the self was not the same;
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was call'd.
Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together;
To themselves yet either-neither,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: asked the Count of his son as he went into the room.
"Father," replied the younger man in a tremulous voice, and with great
respect, "I venture to hope that you will forgive me when you have
heard me."
"Your reply is proper," said the Count. "Sit down," and he pointed to
a chair, "But whether I walk up and down, or take a seat, speak
without heeding me."
"Father," the son went on, "this afternoon, at four o'clock, a very
young man who was arrested in the house of a friend of mine, whom he
had robbed to a considerable extent, appealed to you.--He says he is
your son."
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