| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: in order that he may earn the reputation of a man interested in the
welfare of his district. I insist too on his studying a great deal.
Before long I hope to see him a member of the Council General of the
Department, through the influence of my family and his mother's. I
have told him plainly that I am ambitious, and that I was very well
pleased his father should continue to look after the estate and
practise economies, because I wished him to devote himself exclusively
to politics. If we had children, I should like to see them all
prosperous and with good State appointments. Under penalty, therefore,
of forfeiting my esteem and affection, he must get himself chosen
deputy for the department at the coming elections; my family would
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: to send you word, that she wisheth you as great good hap and safety
to your ship as if she were there in person, desiring you to have
care of yourself as of that which she tendereth and, therefore, for
her sake, you must provide for it accordingly. Furthermore, she
commandeth that you leave your picture with her. For the rest I
leave till our meeting, or to the report of the bearer, who would
needs be the messenger of this good news. So I commit you to the
will and protection of God, who send us such life and death as he
shall please, or hath appointed.
"Richmond, this Friday morning,
"Your true Brother,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: seemingly impossible goal which love had set for her. Again
and again she was swept under by the force of the current.
Again and again she rose and battled, not for her own life; but
for the life of the man she once had loathed and whom she
later had come to love. Inch by inch she won toward the shore
of her desire, and inch by inch of her progress she felt her
strength failing. Could she win? Ah! if she were but a man,
and with the thought came another: Thank God that I am a
woman with a woman's love which gives strength to drive me
into the clutches of death for his sake!
Her heart thundered in tumultuous protest against the strain
The Mucker |
