| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: played with the counters.
"My dear friend," said Madame Marion in a low voice to Madame
Beauvisage, "you see that nothing can now hinder my nephew's
election."
"I am delighted both for your sake and for the Chamber of Deputies,"
said Severine.
"My nephew is certain to go far, my dear; and I'll tell you why: his
own fortune, that which his father will leave him and mine, will
amount altogether to some thirty thousand francs a year. When a man is
a deputy and has a fortune like that, he can aspire to anything."
"Madame, he has our utmost admiration and our most earnest wishes for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: heard his tutor's feeble voice, did not pay attention to it. He
stood keeping hold of the hall-porter's belt, and gazing into his
face.
"Well, and did papa do what he wanted for him?"
The hall-porter nodded his head affirmatively. The clerk with his
face tied up, who had already been seven times to ask some favor
of Alexey Alexandrovitch, interested both Seryozha and the
hall-porter. Seryozha had come upon him in the hall, and had
heard him plaintively beg the hall-porter to announce him, saying
that he and his children had death staring them in the face.
Since then Seryozha, having met him a second time in the hall,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: smoke; my soul grew powerless, my reason silent,
and, if anyone had seen me at that moment, he
would have turned aside with contempt.
When the night-dew and the mountain breeze
had cooled my burning brow, and my thoughts
had resumed their usual course, I realized that to
pursue my perished happiness would be unavail-
ing and unreasonable. What more did I want? --
To see her? -- Why? Was not all over between
us? A single, bitter, farewell kiss would not have
enriched my recollections, and, after it, parting
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