| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: "The love of Nature is the only love that does not deceive human
hopes. There is no disappointment here," said the doctor. "Those
poplars are ten years old; have you ever seen any that are better
grown than these of mine?"
"God is great!" said the soldier, coming to a stand in the middle of
the road, of which he saw neither beginning nor end.
"You do me good," cried Benassis. "It was a pleasure to hear you say
over again what I have so often said in the midst of this avenue.
There is something holy about this place. Here, we are like two mere
specks; and the feeling of our own littleness always brings us into
the presence of God."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: frock coat of the Southern lawmaker, and an old high
silk hat, was passing on the opposite sidewalk. As
Garvey looked, Goree glanced at his face. If there be
such a thing as a yellow wolf, here was its counterpart.
Garvey snarled as his unhuman eyes followed the moving
figure, disclosing long, amber-coloured fangs.
"Is that him? Why, that's the man who sent me to
the penitentiary once!"
"He used to be district attorney," said Goree care-
lessly. "And, by the way, he's a first-class shot."
"I kin hit a squirrel's eye at a hundred yard," said
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy: that seething, bloody Revolution which was overthrowing a monarchy,
attacking a religion, destroying a society, in order to try and
rebuild upon the ashes of tradition a new Utopia, of which a few men
dreamed, but which none had the power to establish.
In the distance two figures were approaching "The Fisherman's
Rest": one, an oldish man, with a curious fringe of grey hairs round a
rotund and massive chin, and who walked with that peculiar rolling
gait which invariably betrays the seafaring man: the other, a young,
slight figure, neatly and becomingly dressed in a dark, many caped
overcoat; he was clean-shaved, and his dark hair was taken well back
over a clear and noble forehead.
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