| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Deserted Woman by Honore de Balzac: notwithstanding, had never known the joys of love for a young and
beautiful woman of refinement and taste. He explained, without
attempting to justify, his unusual conduct. He flattered Mme. de
Beauseant by showing that she had realized for him the ideal lady of a
young man's dream, the ideal sought by so many, and so often sought in
vain. Then he touched upon his morning prowlings under the walls of
Courcelles, and his wild thoughts at the first sight of the house,
till he excited that vague feeling of indulgence which a woman can
find in her heart for the follies committed for her sake.
An impassioned voice was speaking in the chill solitude; the speaker
brought with him a warm breath of youth and the charms of a carefully
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: The loss of what life, sparing this, takes away?
Will she feel (feeling this), when calamities come,
That they brighten the heart, though they darken the home?"
She turn'd, like a soft rainy heav'n, on him
Eyes that smiled through fresh tears, trustful, tender, and dim.
"That woman," she murmur'd, "indeed were thrice blest!"
"Then courage, true wife of my heart!" to his breast
As he folded and gather'd her closely, he cried.
"For the refuge, to-night in these arms open'd wide
To your heart, can be never closed to it again,
And this room is for both an asylum! For when
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: insatiable."
"You speak just like him," laughed our youth.
"Ah but sometimes I want to" - and the girl coloured. "I don't
read everything - I read very little. But I HAVE read you."
"Suppose we go into the gallery," said Paul Overt. She pleased him
greatly, not so much because of this last remark - though that of
course was not too disconcerting - as because, seated opposite to
him at luncheon, she had given him for half an hour the impression
of her beautiful face. Something else had come with it - a sense
of generosity, of an enthusiasm which, unlike many enthusiasms, was
not all manner. That was not spoiled for him by his seeing that
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