| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Let him perceive how ill we brook his treason.
And what offence it is to flout his friends.
TALBOT.
I go, my lord, in heart desiring still
You may behold confusion of your foes.
[Exit.]
[Enter Vernon and Basset.]
VERNON.
Grant me the combat, gracious sovereign.
BASSET.
And me, my lord, grant me the combat too.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Daughter of Eve by Honore de Balzac: love of her own will, without causing her to blush before him, and
then to return to her her own letters, sold by Florine, from whom he
expected to be able to buy them. This judicious plan, rapidly
conceived and partly executed, might fail through some trick of chance
which meddles with all things here below.
After dinner that evening, Felix brought the conversation round to the
masked balls of the Opera, remarking that Marie had never been to one,
and proposing that she should accompany him the following evening.
"I'll find you some one to 'intriguer,'" he said.
"Ah! I wish you would," she replied.
"To do the thing well, a woman ought to fasten upon some good prey, a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: misfortune of her life and mine. They have been leading
her astray for years. Could she be detached from them!--
and sometimes I do not despair of it, for the affection
appears to me principally on their side. They are very
fond of her; but I am sure she does not love them as she
loves you. When I think of her great attachment to you,
indeed, and the whole of her judicious, upright conduct
as a sister, she appears a very different creature,
capable of everything noble, and I am ready to blame
myself for a too harsh construction of a playful manner.
I cannot give her up, Fanny. She is the only woman
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