| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: drawing close the bond between the heart and the senses, to steep both
in ecstasy. For in that apotheosis of human passion, which of those
that were twain on earth that they might know bliss to the full
creates one soul to rise to love in heaven, lay Coralie's
justification. Who, moreover, would not have found excuse in Lucien's
more than human beauty? To the actress kneeling by the bedside, happy
in love within her, it seemed that she had received love's
consecration. Berenice broke in upon Coralie's rapture.
"Here comes Camusot!" cried the maid. "And he knows that you are
here."
Lucien sprang up at once. Innate generosity suggested that he was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: first keen, helpless ache of homesickness shoot through his
breast, and his heart yearned for Crosbey-Holt again.
Then they thundered across the bridge that spanned the moat, and
through the dark shadows of the great gaping gate-way, and
Diccon, bidding him stay for a moment, rode forward to bespeak
the gate-keeper.
The gate-keeper gave the two in charge of one of the men-at-arms
who were lounging upon a bench in the archway, who in turn gave
them into the care of one of the house-servants in the outer
court-yard. So, having been passed from one to another, and
having answered many questions, Myles in due time found himself
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: tell ye, if ye should leade her in a fooles paradise, as they
say, it were a very grosse kind of behauiour, as they say:
for the Gentlewoman is yong: & therefore, if you should
deale double with her, truely it were an ill thing to be offered
to any Gentlewoman, and very weake dealing
Nur. Nurse commend me to thy Lady and Mistresse, I
protest vnto thee
Nur. Good heart, and yfaith I will tell her as much:
Lord, Lord she will be a ioyfull woman
Rom. What wilt thou tell her Nurse? thou doest not
marke me?
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