| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac: be seen with variations at every step in the crowded rooms, and
reflected with different shades in other countenances. The spectacle
of so many vivid passions, of all these lovers' quarrels, these
pleasing revenges, these cruel favors, these flaming glances, of all
this ardent life diffused around them, only made them feel their
impotence more keenly.
At last the Baron had found a seat by Madame de Soulanges. His eyes
stole a long look at her neck, as fresh as dew and as fragrant as
field flowers. He admired close at hand the beauty which had amazed
him from afar. He could see a small, well-shod foot, and measure with
his eye a slender and graceful shape. At that time women wore their
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: Legislature," vol. ii. pp. 187 and 331; "The Revised Statutes of
the State of New York," vol. ii. pp. 411, 643, 717, 720; "The
Statute Law of the State of Tennessee," vol. i. p. 209; "Acts of
the State of Ohio," pp. 95 and 210; and "Digeste general des
Actes de la Legislature de la Louisiane."
Appendix R
If we attentively examine the constitution of the jury as
introduced into civil proceedings in England, we shall readily
perceive that the jurors are under the immediate control of the
judge. It is true that the verdict of the jury, in civil as well
as in criminal cases, comprises the question of fact and the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: came the last farewell and - somewhere far off in that roaring
Paris that surrounded us - the bloody scene. I was the cherished
one, the last comfort, of these dying women. I have been in
pitched fights, my lord, and I never knew such courage. It was all
done smiling, in the tone of good society; BELLE MAMAN was the name
I was taught to give to each; and for a day or two the new "pretty
mamma" would make much of me, show me off, teach me the minuet, and
to say my prayers; and then, with a tender embrace, would go the
way of her predecessors, smiling. There were some that wept too.
There was a childhood! All the time Monsieur de Culemberg kept his
eye on me, and would have had me out of the ABBAYE and in his own
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