| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: met his master, if indeed he has one in these times, and as a man
versed in the world and more especially in the world of women, I
have known none to compare with him. He had travelled far, and
seen much, and he forgot nothing. In part he was a quack, but his
quackery always had a meaning in it. He fleeced the foolish,
indeed, and even juggled with astronomy, making money out of their
superstition; but on the other hand he did many a kind act without
reward. He would make a rich lady pay ten gold pesos for the
dyeing of her hair, but often he would nurse some poor girl through
her trouble and ask no charge; yes, and find her honest employment
after it. He who knew all the secrets of Seville never made money
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac: that price of course Fougeres earned nothing; neither did he lose,
thanks to his sober living. He made a few excursions to the boulevard
to see what became of his pictures, and there he underwent a singular
hallucination. His neat, clean paintings, hard as tin and shiny as
porcelain, were covered with a sort of mist; they looked like old
daubs. Magus was out, and Pierre could obtain no information on this
phenomenon. He fancied something was wrong with his eyes.
The painter went back to his studio and made more pictures. After
seven years of continued toil Fougeres managed to compose and execute
quite passable work. He did as well as any artist of the second class.
Elie bought and sold all the paintings of the poor Breton, who earned
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac: husband's part; he did not wish to give his wife the opportunity of
saying anything with a double meaning. On Madame de Merret's side it
was pride or prudence. When the wall was half built up the cunning
mason took advantage of his master's back being turned to break one of
the two panes in the top of the door with a blow of his pick. By this
Madame de Merret understood that Rosalie had spoken to Gorenflot. They
all three then saw the face of a dark, gloomy-looking man, with black
hair and flaming eyes.
"Before her husband turned round again the poor woman had nodded to
the stranger, to whom the signal was meant to convey, 'Hope.'
"At four o'clock, as the day was dawning, for it was the month of
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