| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: eat dem cakes. Sop dem in de gravy, honey."
"I don't think Yankee girls have to act like such fools. When we
were at Saratoga last year, I noticed plenty of them acting like
they had right good sense and in front of men, too."
Mammy snorted.
"Yankee gals! Yas'm, Ah guess dey speaks dey minds awright, but
Ah ain' noticed many of dem gittin' proposed ter at Saratoga."
"But Yankees must get married," argued Scarlett. "They don't just
grow. They must get married and have children. There's too many
of them."
"Men mahys dem fer dey money," said Mammy firmly.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Another Study of Woman by Honore de Balzac: The Muse of the Department
The Imaginary Mistress
The Middle Classes
Cousin Betty
The Country Parson
In addition, M. Bianchon narrated the following:
La Grande Breteche
Blondet, Emile
Jealousies of a Country Town
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: speech made G---- M---- imagine that there was something more
serious in the affair than he had before supposed; he not only
gave Marcel a promise of his life, but a handsome reward in hand
for his intended confession.
"The booby then told him the leading features of our plot, of
which we had made no secret before him, as he was himself to have
borne a part in it. True, he knew nothing of the alterations we
had made at Paris in our original design; but he had been
informed, before quitting Chaillot, of our projected adventure,
and of the part he was to perform. He therefore told him that
the object was to make a dupe of his son; and that Manon was to
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