| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: Rosalie achieved her end without allowing it to be suspected. It is
enough to say that it was in obedience to her mother that she left
Besancon in the month of May 1835, in an antique traveling carriage
drawn by a pair of sturdy hired horses, and accompanied her father to
les Rouxey.
To a young girl love lurks in everything. When she rose, the morning
after her arrival, Mademoiselle de Watteville saw from her bedroom
window the fine expanse of water, from which the light mists rose like
smoke, and were caught in the firs and larches, rolling up and along
the hills till they reached the heights, and she gave a cry of
admiration.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: Late in October came a Saturday which proved anything but a
holiday for Miss Wilson. At half-past one, luncheon being over,
she went out of doors to a lawn that lay between the southern
side of the college and a shrubbery. Here she found a group of
girls watching Agatha and Jane, who were dragging a roller over
the grass. One of them, tossing a ball about with her racket,
happened to drive it into the shrubbery, whence, to the surprise
of the company, Smilash presently emerged, carrying the ball,
blinking, and proclaiming that, though a common man, he had his
feelings like another, and that his eye was neither a stick nor a
stone. He was dressed as before, but his garments, soiled with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: diminution or alteration. A fanciful nicety it was on the part
of my deceased friend, who, if thinking wisely, ought rather to
have conjured me, by all the tender ties of our friendship and
common pursuits, to have carefully revised, altered, and
augmented, at my judgment and discretion. But the will of the
dead must be scrupulously obeyed, even when we weep over their
pertinacity and self-delusion. So, gentle reader, I bid you
farewell, recommending you to such fare as the mountains of your
own country produce; and I will only farther premise, that each
Tale is preceded by a short introduction, mentioning the persons
by whom, and the circumstances under which, the materials thereof
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