| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Two Brides by Honore de Balzac: myths.
But our work is not all play. We take a great deal of interest in our
flowers, in the beauties of the hothouse, and in our trees. We give
ourselves in all seriousness to horticulture, and embosom the chalet
in flowers, of which we are passionately fond. Our lawns are always
green, our shrubberies as well tended as those of a millionaire. And
nothing I assure you, can match the beauty of our walled garden. We
are regular gluttons over our fruit, and watch with tender interest
our Montreuil peaches, our hotbeds, our laden trellises, and pyramidal
pear-trees.
But lest these rural pursuits should fail to satisfy my beloved's
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: fine old English gentleman, with a face as red as a rose, and a
hand as hard as a table, and a back as broad as a bullock's; and
bade them bring his shooting pony, and the keeper to come on his
pony, and the huntsman, and the first whip, and the second whip,
and the under-keeper with the bloodhound in a leash - a great dog
as tall as a calf, of the colour of a gravel-walk, with mahogany
ears and nose, and a throat like a church-bell. They took him up
to the place where Tom had gone into the wood; and there the hound
lifted up his mighty voice, and told them all he knew.
Then he took them to the place where Tom had climbed the wall; and
they shoved it down, and all got through.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: though by no fault of their own. The man who pledges them better
luck next time, is George Fenner, known to "the seven Portugals,"
Leicester's pet, and captain of the galleon which Elizabeth bought
of him. That short prim man in the huge yellow ruff, with sharp
chin, minute imperial, and self-satisfied smile, is Richard
Hawkins, the Complete Seaman, Admiral John's hereafter famous and
hapless son. The elder who is talking with him is his good uncle
William, whose monument still stands, or should stand, in Deptford
Church; for Admiral John set it up there but one year after this
time; and on it record how he was, "A worshipper of the true
religion, an especial benefactor of poor sailors, a most just
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