| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: write to them at once. As soon as Bianchon comes back I will go
for them myself, if they do not come before."
"If they do not come?" repeated the old man, sobbing. "Why, I
shall be dead before then; I shall die in a fit of rage, of rage!
Anger is getting the better of me. I can see my whole life at
this minute. I have been cheated! They do not love me--they have
never loved me all their lives! It is all clear to me. They have
not come, and they will not come. The longer they put off their
coming, the less they are likely to give me this joy. I know
them. They have never cared to guess my disappointments, my
sorrows, my wants; they never cared to know my life; they will
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: indispensable. Here was the deed to be done; here the man of
action. "Mr. Weber rested not," says Laupepa. It was "like the
old days of his own consulate," writes Churchward. His messengers
filled the isle; his house was thronged with chiefs and orators; he
sat close over his loom, delightedly weaving the future. There was
one thing requisite to the intrigue, - a native pretender; and the
very man, you would have said, stood waiting: Mataafa, titular of
Atua, descended from both the royal lines, late joint king with
Tamasese, fobbed off with nothing in the time of the Lackawanna
treaty, probably mortified by the circumstance, a chief with a
strong following, and in character and capacity high above the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland: the whole of the
"House that Jack built"
although it has been printed many times and they learned
it all in their youth. The difficulty is multiplied tenfold in
China where the rhymes have never been printed, and
where there have grown up various versions from one
original which the nurse had, no doubt, partly forgotten,
but was compelled to complete for the entertainment of the
child.
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