| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac: be studying progress in Cosne, was coming to meet them.
"Believe me," said Bianchon, "what he wants is to be truly loved; and
if he alters his course of life, it will be to the benefit of his
talent."
Dinah's coachman hurried up breathlessly to say that the diligence had
come in, and they walked on quickly, Madame de la Baudraye between the
two men.
"Good-bye, my children!" said Bianchon, before they got into the town,
"you have my blessing!"
He released Madame de la Baudraye's hand from his arm, and allowed
Lousteau to draw it into his, with a tender look, as he pressed it to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Commission in Lunacy by Honore de Balzac: my money in the funds I have been enabled to pay off my obligation
sooner than I had dared to hope, for I took advantage of the
opportunities afforded by the improvement in prices. If I had kept
four thousand francs a year for my boys and myself, I could only have
paid off twenty thousand crowns a year, and it would have taken almost
eighteen years to achieve my freedom. As it is, I have lately repaid
the whole of the eleven hundred thousand francs that were due. Thus I
enjoy the happiness of having made this restitution without doing my
children the smallest wrong.
"These, monsieur, are the reasons for the payments made to Madame
Jeanrenaud and her son."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: till his eyes met hers, full and at close range, luminously soft,
ay, and tender--why, whose fault was it that he lost his grip
utterly? False to Flossie, why not to Loraine? Even if the women
did keep bothering him, that was no reason he should make up his
mind in a hurry. Why, he had slathers of money, and Freda was
just the girl to grace it. A wife she'd make him for other men to
envy. But go slow. He must be cautious.
"You don't happen to care for palaces, do you?" he asked.
She shook her head.
"Well, I had a hankering after them myself, till I got to
thinking, a while back, and I've about sized it up that one'd get
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