| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: "'tween you 'uns and the Coltranes."
Goree frowned ominously. To speak of his feud to
a feudist is a serious breach of the mountain etiquette.
The man from "back yan'" knew it as well as the lawyer
did.
"Na offense," he went on "but purely in the way of
business. Missis Garvey hev studied all about feuds.
Most of the quality folks in the mountains hev 'em. The
Settles and the Goforths, the Rankins and the Boyds, the
Silers and the Galloways, hev all been cyarin' on feuds
f'om twenty to a hundred year. The last man to drap
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Drama on the Seashore by Honore de Balzac: since he locked himself up in the open air in this way; he lives on
bread and water, which is brought to him every morning by his
brother's daughter, a little lass about twelve years old to whom he
has left his property, a pretty creature, gentle as a lamb, a nice
little girl, so pleasant. She has such blue eyes, long as THAT," he
added, marking a line on his thumb, "and hair like the cherubim. When
you ask her: 'Tell me, Perotte' (That's how we say Pierette in these
parts," he remarked, interrupting himself; "she is vowed to Saint
Pierre; Cambremer is named Pierre, and he was her godfather)--'Tell
me, Perotte, what does your uncle say to you?'--'He says nothing to
me, nothing.'--'Well, then, what does he do to you?' 'He kisses me on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: anything to do with. I owe to her the miseries of my marriage,"
exclaimed the Marquis d'Esgrignon.
"Dangerous?" said Madame d'Espard. "Don't speak so of my nearest
friend. I have never seen or known anything in the princess that did
not seem to come from the noblest sentiments."
"Let the marquis say what he thinks," cried Rastignac. "When a man has
been thrown by a fine horse he thinks it has vices and he sells it."
Piqued by these words, the Marquis d'Esgrignon looked at d'Arthez and
said:--
"Monsieur is not, I trust, on such terms with the princess that we
cannot speak freely of her?"
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