| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: that once she had been familiar with brilliant scenes, and had
breathed the air of courts. The stranger seemed half pleased, half
distressed when he understood her invitation; he waited to sit down
until the women were seated.
"You are giving shelter to a reverend father who refused to take the
oath, and escaped the massacres at the Carmelites by a miracle----"
"HOSANNA!" Sister Agathe exclaimed eagerly, interrupting the stranger,
while she watched him with curious eyes.
"That is not the name, I think," he said.
"But, monsieur," Sister Marthe broke in quickly, "we have no priest
here, and----"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: Thorpe's lips pouted over a reply. "Well--no," he said,
with a kind of reluctance. "He got strictly what he was
entitled to--precisely what I had promised him--and he
wrung up his nose at that--and then I actually gave him
15,000 pounds he wasn't entitled to at all."
"I hardly see what it proves, then," Edith Cressage remarked,
and the subject was dropped.
Some two hours later, Thorpe took his departure.
It was not until he was getting into the hansom which had
been summoned, that it all at once occurred to him that he
had not for a moment been alone with his betrothed.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dust by Mr. And Mrs. Haldeman-Julius: as sensible, industrious and free from foolish notions, as even
he could wish.
III
DUST IN HER HEART
SIX weeks later Martin and Rose were married. Martin had let the
contract for the new house and barn to Silas Fletcher, Fallon's
leading carpenter, who had the science of construction reduced to
utter simplicity. He had listened to Martin's description of what
he wished and, after some rough figuring, had proceeded to draw
the plans on the back of a large envelope. Both Rose and Martin
knew that those rude lines would serve unfailingly. For three
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