| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: self as far from his family as possible, lest some future
attempt upon his life might endanger theirs. Then, too,
righteous anger and a desire for revenge prompted his de-
cision. He would run Maenck to earth and have an ac-
counting with him. It was evident that his life would not
be worth a farthing so long as the fellow was at liberty.
Before dawn he swore the gardener and chauffeur to si-
lence, and at breakfast announced his intention of leaving
that day for New York to seek a commission as correspondent
with an old classmate, who owned the New York Evening
National. At the hotel Barney inquired of the proprietor
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: the decoration of Chantepleurs. I have been listening, in all the full
content of an assured and sanctioned love, to that divine music of
Rossini's, which used to soothe me when, as a restless girl, I
hungered vaguely after experience. They say I am more beautiful, and I
have a childish pleasure in hearing myself called "Madame."
Friday morning.
Renee, my fair saint, the happiness of my own life pulls me for ever
back to you. I feel that I can be more to you than ever before, you
are so dear to me! I have studied your wedded life closely in the
light of my own opening chapters; and you seem to me to come out of
the scrutiny so great, so noble, so splendid in your goodness, that I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Door in the Wall, et. al. by H. G. Wells: higher slopes above this flocks of llamas cropped the scanty
herbage. Sheds, apparently shelters or feeding-places for the
llamas, stood against the boundary wall here and there. The
irrigation streams ran together into a main channel down the centre
of the valley, and this was enclosed on either side by a wall
breast high. This gave a singularly urban quality to this secluded
place, a quality that was greatly enhanced by the fact that a
number of paths paved with black and white stones, and each with a
curious little kerb at the side, ran hither and thither in an
orderly manner. The houses of the central village were quite
unlike the casual and higgledy-piggledy agglomeration of the
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