| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: thought I would resist less. The judge told me I might go, I had done
right; then I confessed to a priest, and he gave me absolution."
"But, /cara mia/, what can you do in France? Better stay in Italy;
besides, I am not rich."
She smiled disdainfully.
"I shall not cost you much," she said; "on the contrary, I can save
you money."
"How so?"
"I can be the model for your statues if I choose. Besides which, I am
a capital housekeeper. If Benedetto had behaved properly, we should
have had a good home,--/per che/, I know how to make one; and I've
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: niggers -- it warn't no sale, and the niggers will be
back before long. Why, they can't collect the money
for the NIGGERS yet -- they're in the worst kind of a
fix, Miss Mary."
"Well," she says, "I'll run down to breakfast now,
and then I'll start straight for Mr. Lothrop's."
"'Deed, THAT ain't the ticket, Miss Mary Jane," I
says, "by no manner of means; go BEFORE breakfast."
"Why?"
"What did you reckon I wanted you to go at all
for, Miss Mary?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tattine by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide]: trickle out of a tree?" his unmannerly little tongue the while making the
circuit of his lips in search of any lingering traces of sweetness.
"Trickle out of a tree!" exclaimed astonished Tattine.
"Why, yes, don't you know that's the way they make maple sugar? In the spring,
about April, when the sap begins to run up into the maple-trees, and often
while the snow is still on the ground, they what they call tap the tree; they
drive a sort of little spout right into the tree and soon the sap begins to
ooze out and drop into buckets that are placed to catch it. Afterwards they
boil it down in huge kettles made for the purpose. They call it sugaring off,
and it must be great fun."
"Not half so much fun, I should think, as sugaring down," laughed Mabel, with
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