| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: instructions in its dressing-gown. However," and she smiled, "that
does not matter; the mob are probably not particular. Now, what are
your proposals for legislation, and your official introductions?"
"I shall not always be able to make them, headstrong girl!--Listen,
Emilie. It is my intention no longer to compromise my reputation,
which is part of my children's fortune, by recruiting the regiment of
dancers which, spring after spring, you put to rout. You have already
been the cause of many dangerous misunderstandings with certain
families. I hope to make you perceive more truly the difficulties of
your position and of ours. You are two-and-twenty, my dear child, and
you ought to have been married nearly three years since. Your brothers
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: the same distinction; go where they will, they take a
pride in their old home.
Venice, it has been said, differs from another
cities in the sentiment which she inspires. The rest may
have admirers; she only, a famous fair one, counts lovers
in her train. And, indeed, even by her kindest friends,
Edinburgh is not considered in a similar sense. These
like her for many reasons, not any one of which is
satisfactory in itself. They like her whimsically, if
you will, and somewhat as a virtuoso dotes upon his
cabinet. Her attraction is romantic in the narrowest
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: of which sat the burghers and craftsmen in the mellow moonlight,
with their families about them, and so came at last, on the other side
of the hamlet, to a little inn, all shaded with roses and woodbines.
Before this inn Robin Hood stopped, for the spot pleased him well.
Quoth he, "Here will we take up our inn and rest for the night,
for we are well away from London Town and our King's wrath.
Moreover, if I mistake not, we will find sweet faring within.
What say ye, lads?"
"In sooth, good master," quoth Little John, "thy bidding
and my doing ever fit together like cakes and ale.
Let us in, I say also."
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