| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: say was, "dark and quiet." He is off now buying a carriage and horses.
He says that he will later on try to buy additional horses, so that we
may be able to change them on the way. We have something more than 70
miles before us. The country is lovely, and most interesting. If only we
were under different conditions, how delightful it would be to see it all.
If Jonathan and I were driving through it alone what a pleasure it would be.
To stop and see people, and learn something of their life, and to fill our
minds and memories with all the color and picturesqueness of the whole wild,
beautiful country and the quaint people! But, alas!
Later.--Dr. Van Helsing has returned. He has got the carriage
and horses. We are to have some dinner, and to start in an hour.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: How cold the night is! We must ride faster.
[The Monks begin to chant outside.]
Music! It should be merrier; but grief
Is of the fashion now - I know not why.
You must not weep: do we not love each other? -
That is enough. Death, what do you here?
You were not bidden to this table, sir;
Away, we have no need of you: I tell you
It was in wine I pledged you, not in poison.
They lied who told you that I drank your poison.
It was spilt upon the ground, like my Lord's blood;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: though he was received in the highest spheres he did not belong
to them. They were polite to him, but showed by their whole
manner that they had their own set and that he was not of it.
And Kasatsky wished to belong to that inner circle. To attain
that end it would be necessary to be an aide-de-camp to the
Emperor--which he expected to become--or to marry into that
exclusive set, which he resolved to do. And his choice fell on a
beauty belonging to the Court, who not merely belonged to the
circle into which he wished to be accepted, but whose friendship
was coveted by the very highest people and those most firmly
established in that highest circle. This was Countess Korotkova.
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