| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac: nobody ever will. Yes, I say it! no one ever outwitted me, and no one
can--in any walk of life, politics or impolitics, here or elsewhere.
But, for the time being, I must give myself wholly to the capitalists;
to the 'Globe,' the 'Movement,' the 'Children,' and my article Paris."
"You will be brought up with a round turn, you and your newspapers.
I'll bet you won't get further than Poitiers before the police will
nab you."
"What will you bet?"
"A shawl."
"Done! If I lose that shawl I'll go back to the article Paris and the
hat business. But as for getting the better of Gaudissart--never!
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: his ideas unless it was to you . . . I wish I had the
writer's gift, doctor."
Section 7
It was on the second afternoon that Lady Hardy summoned Dr.
Martineau by telephone. "Something rather disagreeable," she
said. "If you could spare the time. If you could come round.
"It is frightfully distressing," she said when he got round
to her, and for a time she could tell him nothing more. She
was having tea and she gave him some. She fussed about with
cream and cakes and biscuits. He noted a crumpled letter
thrust under the edge of the silver tray.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: XI
DURING THE WEEK before Christmas, Jake was the most important
person of our household, for he was to go to town and do all
our Christmas shopping. But on the twenty-first of December,
the snow began to fall. The flakes came down so thickly that from
the sitting-room windows I could not see beyond the windmill--
its frame looked dim and grey, unsubstantial like a shadow.
The snow did not stop falling all day, or during the night that followed.
The cold was not severe, but the storm was quiet and resistless.
The men could not go farther than the barns and corral.
They sat about the house most of the day as if it were Sunday;
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