| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: and friend, I implore you to obey me; as your master, I command. You
will go to the King and will ask from him the grant of my dignities
and property, my office and titles. He will perhaps hesitate, and may
treat you to some regal scowls; but you must tell him that you are
loved by Marie Heredia, and that Marie can marry none but a Duc de
Soria. This will make the King radiant. It is the immense fortune of
the Heredia family which alone has stood between him and the
accomplishment of my ruin. Your proposal will seem to him, therefore,
to deprive me of a last resource, and he will gladly hand over to you
my spoils.
You will then marry Marie. The secret of the mutual love against which
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: yet Jimson must leave something.' And again he bent himself to
the task.
Presently the penetrating chill of the houseboat began to attack
the very seat of life. He desisted from his unremunerative trial,
and, to the audible annoyance of the rats, walked briskly up and
down the cabin. Still he was cold. 'This is all nonsense,' said
he. 'I don't care about the risk, but I will not catch a catarrh.
I must get out of this den.'
He stepped on deck, and passing to the bow of his embarkation,
looked for the first time up the river. He started. Only a few
hundred yards above another houseboat lay moored among the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: a done different, my poor brother would be with me this day,
and not laying yonder murdered, and him so harmless."
He kind of broke down there and choked up, and waited to get
his voice; and people all around said the most pitiful things,
and women cried; and it was very still in there, and solemn,
and old Uncle Silas, poor thing, he give a groan right
out so everybody heard him. Then Brace he went on,
"Saturday, September 2d, he didn't come home to supper.
By-and-by I got a little uneasy, and one of my niggers
went over to this prisoner's place, but come back and
said he warn't there. So I got uneasier and uneasier,
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