| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: going to stay there unless they sign a jury waiver and they can't
do that. They are only 15 years old--I got their ages--it cost
me $1 to get their ages and I am going to be there when they are
being tried.'' (The statement of the ages is untrue.) ``It
ain't right to keep these boys down there. They look pale. They
don't give them anything but black coffee. I'm going to
represent them boys. You know, doctor, I'm working in three
places now--holding three jobs. Two days in the week I work for
the A's, two for Mr. B.--he ain't exactly my boss--and then for
myself. The A's pay me $6, Mr. B. pays $3, and then I make $7 or
$8 myself interpreting. I'm saving it up to go to law school.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: that you will show me a pleasant face while I am here."
The countess understood the meaning of the words, the feigned softness
of which could no longer deceive her.
"I know my duty," she replied in a tone of sadness which the count
mistook for tenderness.
The timid creature had too much purity and dignity to try, as some
clever women would have done, to govern the count by putting
calculation into her conduct,--a sort of prostitution by which noble
souls feel degraded. Silently she turned away, to console her despair
with Etienne.
"Tete-Dieu! shall I never be loved?" cried the count, seeing the tears
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a
symptom of some ailment in the spiritual
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part. Your pardon once again, good sir, if my speech give the
shadow of offence. You, sir, of all men whom I have known, are
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