| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris:
"Huh!" returned Condy. "As long as she SAID she was thirty-one,
you can bet everything you have that she is; that's as true as
revealed religion."
"Well, it's something to have seen the kind of people who write
the personals," said Blix. "I had always imagined that they were
kind of tough."
"You see they are not," he answered. "I told you they were not.
Maybe, however, we have been exceptionally fortunate. At any
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: the boiling-point, had now stiffened like lava. His skin, brown as
that of a mummy, was glued to his temples. His scanty beard bristled
among his wrinkles like stubble in the furrows. Godain never
perspired, he reabsorbed his substance. His hairy hands, formed like
claws, nervous, never still, seemed to be made of old wood. Though
scarcely twenty-seven years of age, white lines were beginning to show
in his rusty black hair. He wore a blouse, through the breast opening
of which could be seen a shirt of coarse linen, so black that he must
have worn it a month and washed it himself in the Thune. His sabots
were mended with old iron. The original stuff of his trousers was
unrecognizable from the darns and the infinite number of patches. On
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: friend, forgetfulness of the painful night which he had passed in
Woodville Castle.
END OF THE TAPESTRIED CHAMBER.
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DEATH OF THE LAIRD'S JOCK by Sir Walter Scott.
[The manner in which this trifle was introduced at the time to
Mr. F. M. Reynolds, editor of The Keepsake of 1828, leaves no
occasion for a preface.]
AUGUST 1831.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE KEEPSAKE.
You have asked me, sir, to point out a subject for the pencil,
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