| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: and the women shuddered. This was the prowler that had been making
inquiries about them for some time past. But they looked at him with
frightened curiosity, much as shy children stare silently at a
stranger; and neither of them moved.
The newcomer was a tall, burly man. Nothing in his behavior, bearing,
or expression suggested malignity as, following the example set by the
nuns, he stood motionless, while his eyes traveled round the room.
Two straw mats laid upon planks did duty as beds. On the one table,
placed in the middle of the room, stood a brass candlestick, several
plates, three knives, and a round loaf. A small fire burned in the
grate. A few bits of wood in a heap in a corner bore further witness
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: man, a soul so pure, a conscience so ingenuous come beneath her hand.
Though she had told him cruel lies she was driven to do so by the
desire of knowing a true love. That love--she felt it dawning in her
heart; yes, she loved d'Arthez; and now she was condemned forever to
deceive him! She must henceforth remain to him the actress who had
played that comedy to blind his eyes.
When she heard Daniel's step in the dining-room a violent commotion, a
shudder which reached to her very vitals came over her. That
convulsion, never felt during all the years of her adventurous
existence, told her that she had staked her happiness on this issue.
Her eyes, gazing into space, took in the whole of d'Arthez's person;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Message by Honore de Balzac: me a commission--a sacred task, in that it was laid upon me by a
dying man's last wish. Poor boy, all through his agony he was
torturing himself in his young simplicity of heart with the
thought of the painful shock to his mistress when she should
suddenly read of his death in a newspaper. He begged me to go
myself to break the news to her. He bade me look for a key which
he wore on a ribbon about his neck. I found it half buried in the
flesh, but the dying boy did not utter a sound as I extricated it
as gently as possible from the wound which it had made. He had
scarcely given me the necessary directions--I was to go to his
home at La Charite-sur-Loire for his mistress' love-letters,
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