| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adieu by Honore de Balzac: into a state of second childhood, was seated on a cushion beside his
wife, looking fixedly at the fire, which was beginning to thaw his
torpid limbs. He had shown no emotion of any kind, either at
Philippe's danger, or at the fight which ended in the pillage of the
carriage and their expulsion from it.
At first de Sucy took the hand of the young countess, as if to show
her his affection, and the grief he felt at seeing her reduced to such
utter misery; then he grew silent; seated beside her on a heap of snow
which was turning into a rivulet as it melted, he yielded himself up
to the happiness of being warm, forgetting their peril, forgetting all
things. His face assumed, in spite of himself, an expression of almost
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: relatives. As for myself, I no longer care for chemical research, and science
is a tabooed topic in my household. I have returned to my roses. Nature's
colors are good enough for me.
ALL GOLD CANYON
IT was the green heart of the canyon, where the walls swerved back from the
rigid plan and relieved their harshness of line by making a little sheltered
nook and filling it to the brim with sweetness and roundness and softness.
Here all things rested. Even the narrow stream ceased its turbulent down-rush
long enough to form a quiet pool. Knee-deep in the water, with drooping head
and half-shut eyes, drowsed a red-coated, many-antlered buck.
On one side, beginning at the very lip of the pool, was a tiny meadow, a cool,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: -- field notes, statements, sketches, affidavits, connecting
lines-documents of every description that shrewdness
and money could call to the aid of Hamlin and Avery.
The firm was pressing the Commissioner to issue a
patent upon their location. They possesed inside infor-
mation concerning a new railroad that would probably
pass somewhere near this land.
The General Land Office was very still while the Com-
missioner was delving into the heart of the mass of evi-
dence. The pigeons could be heard on the roof of the
old, castle-like building, cooing and fretting. The clerks
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