| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Prince of Bohemia by Honore de Balzac: long chaffering, when the stranger lady passed and recognized him.
" 'Once for all,' cried he to the bewildered wardrobe dealer, 'I tell
you I am not going to take your trumpet!'
"He pointed to a huge, much-dinted musical instrument, hanging up
outside against a background of uniforms, civil and military. Then,
proudly and impetuously, he followed the lady.
"From that great day of the trumpet these two understood one another
to admiration. Charles Edward's ideas on the subject of love are as
sound as possible. According to him, a man cannot love twice, there is
but one love in his lifetime, but that love is a deep and shoreless
sea. It may break in upon him at any time, as the grace of God found
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: And, indeed, it is a pity, because Mary is a
charming girl!" . . .
It must be observed that Grushnitski is one of
those men who, in speaking of a woman with
whom they are barely acquainted, call her my
Mary, my Sophie, if she has had the good fortune
to please them.
I assumed a serious air and answered:
"Yes, she is good-looking. . . Only be care-
ful, Grushnitski! Russian ladies, for the most
part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: pronuntiare cogat. His rebus atque auditionibus permoti de summis saepe
rebus consula ineunt, quorum eos in vestigio paenitere necesse est, cum
incertis rumoribus serviant et pleri ad voluntatem eorum ficta
respondeant.
Qua consuetudine cognita Caesar, ne graviori bello, occurreret,
maturius quam consuerat ad exercitum proficiscitur. Eo cum venisset, ea
quas fore suspicatus erat facta cognovit: missas legationes ab non nullis
civitatibus ad Germanos invitatos eos uti ab Rheno discederent: omnia
quae[que] postulassent ab se fore parata. Qua spe adducti Germani latius
iam vagabantur et in fines Eburonum et Condrusorum, qui sunt Treverorum
clientes, pervenerant. Principibus Gallice evocatis Caesar ea quae
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