| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: that the faubourg Saint-Germain is still the debtor of Poland.
Was Comte Adam rich, or was he poor, or was he an adventurer? This
problem was long unsolved. The diplomatic salons, faithful to
instructions, imitated the silence of the Emperor Nicholas, who held
that all Polish exiles were virtually dead and buried. The court of
the Tuileries, and all who took their cue from it, gave striking proof
of the political quality which was then dignified by the name of
sagacity. They turned their backs on a Russian prince with whom they
had all been on intimate terms during the Emigration, merely because
it was said that the Emperor Nicholas gave him the cold shoulder.
Between the caution of the court and the prudence of the diplomates,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: warrand, an' she'll make a long toe as he canna get's boot on.
That's what comes o' marr'in' young wenches. I war gone thirty,
an' th' feyther too, afore we war married; an' young enough too.
She'll be a poor dratchell by then SHE'S thirty, a-marr'in' a-
that'n, afore her teeth's all come."
Adam walked so fast that he was at the yard-gate before seven.
Martin Poyser and the grandfather were not yet come in from the
meadow: every one was in the meadow, even to the black-and-tan
terrier--no one kept watch in the yard but the bull-dog; and when
Adam reached the house-door, which stood wide open, he saw there
was no one in the bright clean house-place. But he guessed where
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: It is time to follow the poor Sheet of Paper (literal meaning of
LAUPEPA), who was now to be blown so broadly over the face of
earth. As soon as news reached him of the declaration of war, he
fled from Afenga to Tanunga-manono, a hamlet in the bush, about a
mile and a half behind Apia, where he lurked some days. On the
24th, Selu, his secretary, despatched to the American consul an
anxious appeal, his majesty's "cry and prayer" in behalf of "this
weak people." By August 30th, the Germans had word of his lurking-
place, surrounded the hamlet under cloud of night, and in the early
morning burst with a force of sailors on the houses. The people
fled on all sides, and were fired upon. One boy was shot in the
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