| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: part decently; for I cannot but remember even now what your father did
for mine. You will explain the duties of the stewardship in a proper
manner to Monsieur de Reybert, who succeeds you. Be calm, as I am.
Give no opportunity for fools to talk. Above all, let there be no
recrimination or petty meanness. Though you no longer possess my
confidence, endeavor to behave with the decorum of well-bred persons.
As for that miserable boy who has wounded me to death, I will not have
him sleep at Presles; send him to the inn; I will not answer for my
own temper if I see him."
"I do not deserve such gentleness, monseigneur," said Moreau, with
tears in his eyes. "Yes, you are right; if I had been utterly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: When something fresh in this line came out she was in a
fever, right away, to try it; not on herself, for she was
never ailing, but on anybody else that came handy.
She was a subscriber for all the "Health" periodicals
and phrenological frauds; and the solemn ignorance
they were inflated with was breath to her nostrils.
All the "rot" they contained about ventilation, and
how to go to bed, and how to get up, and what to
eat, and what to drink, and how much exercise to
take, and what frame of mind to keep one's self in,
and what sort of clothing to wear, was all gospel to
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: --She can no more, an' please your honour, stand a siege, than she can fly-
-cried the corporal--
--But as we are neighbours, Trim,--the best way I think is to let her know
it civilly first--quoth my uncle Toby.
Now if I might presume, said the corporal, to differ from your honour--
--Why else do I talk to thee, Trim? said my uncle Toby, mildly--
--Then I would begin, an' please your honour, with making a good thundering
attack upon her, in return--and telling her civilly afterwards--for if she
knows any thing of your honour's being in love, before hand--L..d help
her!--she knows no more at present of it, Trim, said my uncle Toby--than
the child unborn--
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