| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: disappointin' to you, ain't it?"
"But," Blix hastened to add, "we're not at all discouraged. We're
going to send it off again right away."
Then she said good-by to them.
"I dunno as you'll see me here when you come back, miss," said the
Captain, at the gate, his arm around K. D. B. "I've got to
schemin' again. Do you know," he added, in a low, confidential
tone, "that all the mines in California send their clean-ups and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Eve and David by Honore de Balzac: and hunted down on all sides, read this jargon, he received notice of
judgment against him by default. Coralie, his mistress, ignorant of
the whole matter, imagined that Lucien had obliged his brother-in-law,
and handed him all the documents together--too late. An actress sees
so much of bailiffs, duns, and writs, upon the stage, that she looks
on all stamped paper as a farce.
Tears filled Lucien's eyes; he was unhappy on Sechard's account, he
was ashamed of the forgery, he wished to pay, he desired to gain time.
Naturally he took counsel of his friends. But by the time Lousteau,
Blondet, Bixiou, and Nathan had told the poet to snap his fingers at a
court only established for tradesmen, Lucien was already in the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: is still asleep. I looked into her room and saw her, but did
not go in, lest I should disturb her." The Professor smiled,
and looked quite jubilant. He rubbed his hands together,
and said, "Aha! I thought I had diagnosed the case.
My treatment is working."
To which she replied, "You must not take all the credit to yourself, doctor.
Lucy's state this morning is due in part to me."
"How do you mean, ma'am?" asked the Professor.
"Well, I was anxious about the dear child in the night, and went
into her room. She was sleeping soundly, so soundly that even
my coming did not wake her. But the room was awfully stuffy.
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