| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: vexation than pleasure, and you desert your partner--"
"I desert!----" cried she, clasping her hands.
"Have not you yourself just said 'Never'?"
"Well, then, yes! /Never/," she repeated vehemently.
This final /Never/, spoken in the fear of falling once more under
Lousteau's influence, was interpreted by him as the death-warrant of
his power, since Dinah remained insensible to his sarcastic scorn.
The journalist could not suppress a tear. He was losing a sincere and
unbounded affection. He had found in Dinah the gentlest La Valliere,
the most delightful Pompadour that any egoist short of a king could
hope for; and, like a boy who has discovered that by dint of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: all with them!
Guacanagari said that Caonabo had invited them to a feast.
It was spread in three houses, and they were divided so,
and around each Spaniard was put a ring of Indians. They
were eating and drinking. Caonabo entered the first house,
and his coming made the signal. Escobedo and Pedro
Gutierrez were in this house. They raised a shout, ``Undone,
Spaniards!'' But though they were heard in the
other houses--these houses being nothing more than booths
--it was to no use. There followed struggle and massacre;
finally Gutierrez and Escobedo and eight men lay dead.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: before a woman; he is so full of tenderness for her that in Poland he
becomes her inferior, though Polish women make admirable wives. Now a
Pole is still more easily vanquished by a Parisian woman. Consequently
Comte Adam, pressed by questions, did not even attempt the innocent
roguery of selling the suspected secret. It is always wise with a
woman to get some good out of a mystery; she will like you the better
for it, as a swindler respects an honest man the more when he finds he
cannot swindle him. Brave in heart but not in speech, Comte Adam
merely stipulated that he should not be compelled to answer until he
had finished his narghile.
"If any difficulty occurred when we were travelling," said Clementine,
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