| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: story in the _World_ swept the city and the state like wildfire.
It was a crouched dramatic narrative and its effect was telling.
From it only one inference could be drawn. The big corporations,
driven to the wall, had attempted a desperate coup to save the
day. It was all very well for Big Tim to file a libel suit. The
mind of the public was made up.
The mass meeting at the State House drew an enormous crowd, one so
great that overflow meetings had to be held. Every corridor in the
building was full of excited jostling people. They poured into the
gallery of the Senate room and packed the rear of the floor
itself. Against such a demonstration the upper house did not dare
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: said a word of her intentions and wishes, but all the electors of
Provins were awaiting the time when their dear Monsieur Tiphaine had
reached the required age for nomination. Every man in the place,
certain of his own talents, regarded the future deputy as his
particular friend, his protector. Of course, Monsieur Tiphaine would
attain to honors; he would be Keeper of the Seals, and then, what
wouldn't he do for Provins!
Such were the pleasant means by which Madame Tiphaine had come to rule
over the little town. Madame Guenee, Monsieur Tiphaine's sister, after
having married her eldest daughter to Monsieur Lesourd, prosecuting
attorney, her second to Monsieur Martener, the doctor, and the third
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: "Oh! he comes on behalf of the family."
"Whose family?"
"The disinherited family. He is M. Camusot de Marville's
representative."
"Good," said the master of the ceremonies, with a satisfied air. "We
shall have two pall-bearers at any rate--you and he."
And, happy to find two of the places filled up, he took out some
wonderful white buckskin gloves, and politely presented Fraisier and
Villemot with a pair apiece.
"If you gentlemen will be so good as to act as pall-bearers--" said
he.
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