| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Z. Marcas by Honore de Balzac: the crupper of every event. Of the two, Carrel was the better man.
Well, one becomes a minister, Carrel remained a journalist; the
incomplete but craftier man is living; Carrel is dead.
"I may point out that your man has for fifteen years been making his
way, and is but making it still. He may yet be caught and crushed
between two cars full of intrigues on the highroad to power. He has no
house; he has not the favor of the palace like Metternich; nor, like
Villele, the protection of a compact majority.
"I do not believe that the present state of things will last ten
years longer. Hence, supposing I should have such poor good luck,
I am already too late to avoid being swept away by the commotion
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: smiled at it, trusting to the charm of her personality to dispel
any prejudice against her. But now she had grown more sensitive
to criticism and less confident in her power of disarming it. She
knew, moreover, that if the ladies at Bellomont permitted
themselves to criticize her friends openly, it was a proof that
they were not afraid of subjecting her to the same treatment
behind her back. The nervous dread lest anything in Trenor's
manner should seem to justify their disapproval made her seek
every pretext for avoiding him, and she left Bellomont con scious of having failed in every purpose which had taken her
there.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: the use of some weapon, who wandered the country challenging
distinguished rivals and taking part in local quarrels. It
was in the natural course of his advancement to be at last
employed by a chief, or king; and it would then be a part of
his duties to purvey the victim for sacrifice. One of the
doomed families was indicated; the aito took his weapon and
went forth alone; a little behind him bearers followed with
the sacrificial basket. Sometimes the victim showed fight,
sometimes prevailed; more often, without doubt, he fell. But
whatever body was found, the bearers indifferently took up.
Note 2, "PAI," "HONOURA," and "AHUPU." Legendary persons of
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