| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: estimation of which by other parties constituted the handsomest
recognition yet made of the head on his shoulders. Therefore their
waiting was over--it could be a question of a near date. They
would settle this date before going back, and he meanwhile had his
eye on a sweet little home. He would take her to see it on their
first Sunday.
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His having kept this great news for the last, having had such a
card up his sleeve and not floated it out in the current of his
chatter and the luxury of their leisure, was one of those
incalculable strokes by which he could still affect her; the kind
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: I prayed to God within. My last companion in chains was a soldier,
twenty-two years of age, who had committed a theft and deserted in
consequence of it. We were chained together for four years, and we
were friends; wherever I may be I am certain to meet him when his time
is up. This poor devil, whose name is Guepin, is not a scoundrel, he
is merely heedless; his punishment may reform him. If my comrades had
discovered that religion led me to submit to my trials,--that I meant,
when my time was up, to live humbly in a corner, letting no one know
where I was, intending to forget their horrible community and never to
cross the path of any of them,--they would probably have driven me
mad."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: Ophe. And will he not come againe,
And will he not come againe:
No, no, he is dead, go to thy Death-bed,
He neuer wil come againe.
His Beard as white as Snow,
All Flaxen was his Pole:
He is gone, he is gone, and we cast away mone,
Gramercy on his Soule.
And of all Christian Soules, I pray God.
God buy ye.
Exeunt. Ophelia
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