| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: not as gay as a lark to-morrow morning, I have only a word to say to
you; it is this, pay attention to it,--there is but one way to kill a
man without the interference of the law, and that is to fight a duel
with him; but I know three ways to get rid of a woman: mind that, my
beauty!"
During this address, Flore shook like a person with the ague.
"Kill Max--?" she said, gazing at Philippe in the moonlight.
"Come, here's my uncle."
Old Rouget, turning a deaf ear to Monsieur Hochon's remonstrances, now
came out into the street, and took Flore by the hand, as a miser might
have grasped his treasure; he drew her back to the house and into his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne: down the street, stamping, shaking his head violently, making
deprecatory gestures with both hands, and shouting to her at
mouth-wide screech.
"No, no, Phoebe!" he screamed. "Don't you go in! There's
something wicked there! Don't--don't--don't go in!"
But, as the little personage could not be induced to approach
near enough to explain himself, Phoebe concluded that he had been
frightened, on some of his visits to the shop, by her cousin
Hepzibah; for the good lady's manifestations, in truth, ran about
an equal chance of scaring children out of their wits, or compelling
them to unseemly laughter. Still, she felt the more, for this
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: behind upon the shore mounds of dirt, which are called there
"kjokken-moddings"--"kitchen-middens" as they would say in
Scotland, "kitchen-dirtheaps" as we should say here down South--
and a very good name for them that is; for they are made up of the
shells of oysters, cockles, mussels, and periwinkles, and other
shore-shells besides, on which those poor creatures fed; and
mingled with them are broken bones of beasts, and fishes, and
birds, and flint knives, and axes, and sling stones; and here and
there hearths, on which they have cooked their meals in some rough
way. And that is nearly all we know about them; but this we know
from the size of certain of the shells, and from other reasons
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