| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: indescribable cruelty, and he cast upon the notary the glance of a
tiger. The baroness was mute and passive. Ginevra, calm and resolute,
waited silently; she knew that the notary's voice was more potent than
hers, and she seemed to have decided to say nothing. At the moment
when Roguin ceased speaking, the scene had become so terrifying that
the men who were there as witnesses trembled; never, perhaps, had they
known so awful a silence. The notaries looked at each other, as if in
consultation, and finally rose and walked to the window.
"Did you ever meet people born into the world like that?" asked Roguin
of his brother notary.
"You can't get anything out of him," replied the younger man. "In your
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: I made a mess of tying the knot. Then Hiram let go his rope, and when the
cub dropped to the ground the rope flew up over the branch. Cubby leaped so
quickly that he jerked the rope away before Hiram could pick it up, and one
hard pull loosened my hitch on the sapling.
The cub bounded through the glade, dragging me with him. For a few long
leaps I kept my feet, then down I sprawled.
"Hang on! Hang on!" Hiram yelled from behind.
If I had not been angry clear through at that cub I might have let go. He
ploughed my face in the dirt, and almost jerked my arms off. Suddenly the
strain lessened. I got up, to see that the old hunter had hold of the other
rope.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: and the young ladies were immediately put in possession
of a very comfortable apartment. It had formerly
been Charlotte's, and over the mantelpiece still hung
a landscape in coloured silks of her performance,
in proof of her having spent seven years at a great school
in town to some effect.
As dinner was not to be ready in less than two
hours from their arrival, Elinor determined to employ
the interval in writing to her mother, and sat down for
that purpose. In a few moments Marianne did the same.
"I am writing home, Marianne," said Elinor; "had not you
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