| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: "I wonder what he is thinking about now," said Clementine.
"He is thinking that this winter has cost a good deal, and that it is
time we went to economize with your old uncle Ronquerolles," replied
Adam.
The countess stopped the carriage near Paz, and bade him take the seat
beside her. Thaddeus grew as red as a cherry.
"I shall poison you," he said; "I have been smoking."
"Doesn't Adam poison me?" she said.
"Yes, but he is Adam," returned the captain.
"And why can't Thaddeus have the same privileges?" asked the countess,
smiling.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: hate. Wait! My faith in God--some God--still lives. By it I see
happier times for you, poor passion-swayed wanderer! For me--a
miserable, broken woman. I loved your sister Milly. I will love
you. I can't have fallen so low--I can't be so abandoned by
God--that I've no love left to give you. Wait! Let us forget
Milly's sad life. Ah, I knew it as no one else on earth! There's
one thing I shall tell you--if you are at my death-bed, but I
can't speak now."
"I reckon I don't want to hear no more," said Lassiter.
Jane leaned against him, as if some pent-up force had rent its
way out, she fell into a paroxysm of weeping. Lassiter held her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: So the Man ordered his Boy to get off, and got on himself.
But they hadn't gone far when they passed two women, one of whom
said to the other: "Shame on that lazy lout to let his poor little
son trudge along."
Well, the Man didn't know what to do, but at last he took his
Boy up before him on the Donkey. By this time they had come to
the town, and the passers-by began to jeer and point at them. The
Man stopped and asked what they were scoffing at. The men said:
"Aren't you ashamed of yourself for overloading that poor donkey
of yoursu and your hulking son?"
The Man and Boy got off and tried to think what to do. They
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