| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: more regret, because no marriage was ever so difficult to arrange as
that of this darling daughter. To understand all the obstacles we must
make our way into the fine residence where the official was housed at
the expense of the nation. Emilie had spent her childhood on the
family estate, enjoying the abundance which suffices for the joys of
early youth; her lightest wishes had been law to her sisters, her
brothers, her mother, and even her father. All her relations doted on
her. Having come to years of discretion just when her family was
loaded with the favors of fortune, the enchantment of life continued.
The luxury of Paris seemed to her just as natural as a wealth of
flowers or fruit, or as the rural plenty which had been the joy of her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: with an inward emotion of awe, expecting which of his
confederates would set the example by plunging himself down.
This inward sensation of fear and reluctance acted differently,
according to the various habits and characters of the company.
One looked grave; another looked silly; a third gazed with
apprehension on the empty seats at the higher end of the table,
designed for members of the conspiracy whose prudence had
prevailed over their political zeal, and who had absented
themselves from their consultations at this critical period; and
some seemed to be reckoning up in their minds the comparative
rank and prospects of those who were present and absent. Sir
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: that!). Mademoiselle Rogron, who had discovered letters proving the
depravity of the girl, was not as much to blame as the Tiphaines were
trying to make out. If she did use some violence to get possession of
those letters (which was no wonder, when we consider what Breton
obstinacy is), how could Rogron be considered responsible for all
that?
The lawyer went on to make the matter a partisan affair, and to give
it a political color.
"They who listen to only one bell hear only one sound," said the wise
men. "Have you heard what Vinet says? Vinet explains things clearly."
Frappier's house being thought injurious to Pierrette, owing to the
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