| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: have no right orders; all may be contrived by Simon, and your father
knowing nothing."
She burst out weeping between the pair of us; and my heart smote me
hard, for I thought this girl was in a dreadful situation.
"Here," said I, "keep him but the one hour; and I'll chance it, and may
God bless you."
She put out her hand to me, "I will he needing one good word," she
sobbed.
"The full hour, then?" said I, keeping her hand in mine. "Three lives
of it, my lass!"
"The full hour!" she said, and cried aloud on her Redeemer to forgive
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: gravy out of a patty-pan.
"Gammon, ha, HA!" he shouted
when he saw Duchess's little black
nose peeping round the corner.
Duchess ran home feeling uncommonly
silly!
When Ribby came out for a pailful
of water to wash up the tea-
things, she found a pink and white
pie-dish lying smashed in the middle
of the yard. The patty-pan
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: "Put it at six thousand francs," replied Europe.
"Well, if Madame Auguste wants to be paid and keep our custom, tell
her to make out a bill for thirty thousand francs over four years.
Make a similar arrangement with the milliner. The jeweler, Samuel
Frisch the Jew, in the Rue Saint-Avoie, will lend you some pawn-
tickets; we must owe him twenty-five thousand francs, and we must want
six thousand for jewels pledged at the Mont-de-Piete. We will return
the trinkets to the jeweler, half the stones will be imitation, but
the Baron will not examine them. In short, you will make him fork out
another hundred and fifty thousand francs to add to our nest-eggs
within a week."
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