| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Purse by Honore de Balzac: studio; but the visit he undoubtedly had a right to pay to his
neighbors was the true cause of his haste; he had already
forgotten the pictures he had begun. At the moment when a passion
throws off its swaddling clothes, inexplicable pleasures are
felt, known to those who have loved. So some readers will
understand why the painter mounted the stairs to the fourth floor
but slowly, and will be in the secret of the throbs that followed
each other so rapidly in his heart at the moment when he saw the
humble brown door of the rooms inhabited by Mademoiselle
Leseigneur. This girl, whose name was not the same as her
mother's, had aroused the young painter's deepest sympathies; he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: "I never saw such a young lady as you are for not 'recognizing.'
I have no doubt the thing is BEASTLY, but it saves a lot of trouble."
"It makes a lot of trouble. It's horrid," said Bessie.
"But how would you have the first people go?" asked Lord Lambeth.
"They can't go last."
"Whom do you mean by the first people?"
"Ah, if you mean to question first principles!" said Lord Lambeth.
"If those are your first principles, no wonder some of your arrangements
are horrid," observed Bessie Alden with a very pretty ferocity.
"I am a young girl, so of course I go last; but imagine what Kitty must
feel on being informed that she is not at liberty to budge until certain
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: But he remained standing before her and said presently,
"What is of much more importance is that they don't like me."
"No--they don't," she said.
"And don't you think they are wrong?" Newman asked.
"I don't believe I am a man to dislike."
"I suppose that a man who may be liked may also be disliked.
And my brother--my mother," she added, "have not made you angry?"
"Yes, sometimes."
"You have never shown it."
"So much the better."
"Yes, so much the better. They think they have treated you very well."
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