| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: hands of his enemies; and a shudder ran through the stranger, as he
thought that a new crime might be committed, and that he could not
choose but take his part in it.
The service came to an end. The priest made a sign to the sisters, and
they withdrew. As soon as he was left alone with the stranger, he went
towards him with a grave, gentle face, and said in fatherly tones:
"My son, if your hands are stained with the blood of the royal martyr,
confide in me. There is no sin that may not be blotted out in the
sight of God by penitence as sincere and touching as yours appears to
be."
At the first words the man started with terror, in spite of himself.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: (in which to gratify him I willingly acquiesced), he left at my
disposal the rents of a great proportion of his estates, and
especially all those, which, having belonged to your mother,
reverted to him as a male fief. In this he may have thought that
he was acting with extreme generosity, while, in the opinion of
all impartial men, he will only be considered as having fulfilled
a natural obligation, seeing that, in justice, if not in strict
law, you must be considered as the heir of your mother, and I as
your legal administrator. Instead, therefore, of considering
myself as loaded with obligations to Sir Edward on this account,
I think I had reason to complain that these remittances were only
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: called from below to tell me Mrs. Richardson was come in
her coach, and would take one of us to Kensington Gardens;
so I was forced to go into the room and interrupt them,
to ask Lucy if she would like to go, but she did not
care to leave Edward; so I just run up stairs and put
on a pair of silk stockings and came off with the Richardsons."
"I do not understand what you mean by interrupting them,"
said Elinor; "you were all in the same room together,
were not you?"
"No, indeed, not us. La! Miss Dashwood, do you
think people make love when any body else is by? Oh,
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