| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: Cornoiller could say nothing, so he went away.
"Madame," said Nanon, who had put on her black coif and taken her
basket, "I want only three francs. You keep the rest; it'll go fast
enough somehow."
"Have a good dinner, Nanon; my cousin will come down," said Eugenie.
"Something very extraordinary is going on, I am certain of it," said
Madame Grandet. "This is only the third time since our marriage that
your father has given a dinner."
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About four o'clock, just as Eugenie and her mother had finished
setting the table for six persons, and after the master of the house
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: contrast that very rapture with the bliss he had refused to
another. This breath of the passion immortal was all that other
had asked; the descent of Mary Antrim opened his spirit with a
great compunctious throb for the descent of Acton Hague. It was as
if Stransom had read what her eyes said to him.
After a moment he looked round in a despair that made him feel as
if the source of life were ebbing. The church had been empty - he
was alone; but he wanted to have something done, to make a last
appeal. This idea gave him strength for an effort; he rose to his
feet with a movement that made him turn, supporting himself by the
back of a bench. Behind him was a prostrate figure, a figure he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: struck him, while the air roared in his ears, as the one pitying
pair in the crowd. But how could he speak to her while she sat
sandwiched there between the counter-clerk and the sounder?
She had long ago, in her comings and goings made acquaintance with
Park Chambers and reflected as she looked up at their luxurious
front that they of course would supply the ideal setting for the
ideal speech. There was not an object in London that, before the
season was over, was more stamped upon her brain. She went
roundabout to pass it, for it was not on the short way; she passed
on the opposite side of the street and always looked up, though it
had taken her a long time to be sure of the particular set of
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