| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: best friends. Your mutual friendship, pure and unalterable, is a claim
upon me. You will not, I am sure, think it extraordinary, that I have
wished to know all you could tell me of a man so dear to you. Though I
am attached to the exiled family, and bound, of course, to hold
monarchical opinions, I am not among those who think it is impossible
to be both republican and noble in heart. Monarchy and the republic
are two forms of government which do not stifle noble sentiments."
"Michel Chrestien was an angel, madame," replied Daniel, in a voice of
emotion. "I don't know among the heroes of antiquity a greater than
he. Be careful not to think him one of those narrow-minded republicans
who would like to restore the Convention and the amenities of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mosses From An Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Nay; it is too bright to be seen," said another. "Yes; he must
needs be a nobleman, as you say. But by what conveyance, think
you, can his lordship have voyaged or travelled hither? There has
been no vessel from the old country for a month past; and if he
have arrived overland from the southward, pray where are his
attendants and equipage?"
"He needs no equipage to set off his rank," remarked a third. "If
he came among us in rags, nobility would shine through a hole in
his elbow. I never saw such dignity of aspect. He has the old
Norman blood in his veins, I warrant him."
"I rather take him to be a Dutchman, or one of your high
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: bordering on the grave. He was blown into
a thousand atoms. It took place on
Wednesday of last week and some accounts
state that it grew out of an experiment
with phosphoric ether, others that it was
by a too liberal indulgence in Prussic acid,
an article which, from its resemblance to
the peach, he was remarkably fond of having
about him.''
The Doctor was extensively accused of
quackery, and on one occasion when the
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