| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: "Are there laws in France which destroy paternal authority?--"
demanded the Corsican.
"Monsieur--" said Roguin, in his honeyed tones.
"Which tear a daughter from her father?--"
"Monsieur--"
"Which deprive an old man of his last consolation?--"
"Monsieur, your daughter only belongs to you if--"
"And kill him?--"
"Monsieur, permit me--"
There is nothing more horrible than the coolness and precise reasoning
of notaries amid the many passionate scenes in which they are
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: different and contrary. How are they different and contrary?
Why, his is the master and mine the slave; and the slave can have
no will of his own, but only do his master's will and forsake all
other affairs. But what reference has that to me? My heart and
service are no concern to him. This arrangement distresses me,
that one is master of us both. Why is not my heart as
independent as his? Then their power would be equalised. My
heart is now a prisoner, unable to move itself unless his moves
as well. And whether his heart wanders or stays still, mine must
needs prepare to follow him in his train. God! why are our
bodies not so near one another that I could in some way bring
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: for mercy.
She could never respect herself again. The
scene came back in vivid flashes. His eyes,
glowing like two balls of blue fire, froze the blood in
her veins--his voice the rasping cold steel of a file.
And this coarse, ugly beast had held her in the spell
of love. She had clung to him, kissed him in rapture
and yielded herself to him soul and body. And he had
gripped her delicate throat and choked her into
insensibility, dropping her limp form from his hands
like a strangled rat. She could remember the half-
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