| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: prodigality, neither does good, nor is rewarded by gratitude. It
is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind."
"And that wad be a light har'st," said Hobbie; "but, wi' my young
leddie's leave, I wad fain take down Eishie's skeps o' bees, and
set them in Grace's bit flower yard at the Heugh-foot--they shall
ne'er be smeekit by ony o' huz. And the puir goat, she would be
negleckit about a great toun like this; and she could feed
bonnily on our lily lea by the burn side, and the hounds wad ken
her in a day's time, and never fash her, and Grace wad milk her
ilka morning wi' her ain hand, for Elshie's sake; for though he
was thrawn and cankered in his converse, he likeit dumb creatures
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac: placed her in ease by settling her with my uncle."
"Yes, madame, with old Monsieur Thoul, but he is very old and
broken--"
"But what have you done with him? Is he with you? She was very foolish
to leave him; he is worth millions now."
"Heaven above us!" cried the mother. "What did I tell her when she
behaved so badly to him, and he as mild as milk, poor old fellow? Oh!
didn't she just give it him hot?--Olympe was perverted, madame?"
"But how?"
"She got to know a /claqueur/, madame, saving your presence, a man
paid to clap, you know, the grand nephew of an old mattress-picker of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: nine fathoms of water, whilst on either side the depth
was ninety fathoms.
The Nautilus had to manoeuvre very carefully so as not to strike
against this submarine barrier.
I showed Conseil, on the map of the Mediterranean, the spot occupied
by this reef.
"But if you please, sir," observed Conseil, "it is like a real
isthmus joining Europe to Africa."
"Yes, my boy, it forms a perfect bar to the Straits of Lybia,
and the soundings of Smith have proved that in former times
the continents between Cape Boco and Cape Furina were joined."
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