| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: slipped into one of her pockets. But at the touch of a profane hand on
her clothes, the stranger recovered youth and activity for a moment,
preferring to face the dangers of the street with no protector save
God, to the loss of the thing she had just paid for. She sprang to the
door, flung it open, and disappeared, leaving the husband and wife
dumfounded and quaking with fright.
Once outside in the street, she started away at a quick walk; but her
strength soon failed her. She heard the sound of the snow crunching
under a heavy step, and knew that the pitiless spy was on her track.
She was obliged to stop. He stopped likewise. From sheer terror, or
lack of intelligence, she did not dare to speak or to look at him. She
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: The poor father never dreamed of the fearful blow that awaited him.
On reaching Corentin's house, Bruno, the confidential servant, who
knew Peyrade, said:
"Monsieur is gone away."
"For a long time?"
"For ten days."
"Where?"
"I don't know.
"Good God, I am losing my wits! I ask him where--as if we ever told
them----" thought he.
A few hours before the moment when Peyrade was to be roused in his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: a little hard, she starts and wriggles like a young dab-chick in the water;
and Benwick sits at her elbow, reading verses, or whispering to her,
all day long."
Anne could not help laughing. "That cannot be much to your taste,
I know," said she; "but I do believe him to be an excellent young man."
"To be sure he is. Nobody doubts it; and I hope you do not think
I am so illiberal as to want every man to have the same objects and
pleasures as myself. I have a great value for Benwick; and when one can
but get him to talk, he has plenty to say. His reading has done him
no harm, for he has fought as well as read. He is a brave fellow.
I got more acquainted with him last Monday than ever I did before.
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