| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: which Mr Pitman was in the habit of communicating with the
proprietors of schools and the parents of his pupils. He placed
the desk on the table by the window, and taking a saucer of
Indian ink from the chimney-piece, laboriously composed the
following letter:
'My dear Mr Finsbury,' it ran, 'would it be presuming on your
kindness if I asked you to pay me a visit here this evening? It
is in no trifling matter that I invoke your valuable assistance,
for need I say more than it concerns the welfare of Mr
Semitopolis's statue of Hercules? I write you in great agitation
of mind; for I have made all enquiries, and greatly fear that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Albert Savarus by Honore de Balzac: "My dear Baroness," said Madame de Chavoncourt, "do not let such
serious issues turn on such a trifle. The varnish on his boots is not
dry--or a consultation, perhaps, detains Monsieur de Savarus."
Rosalie shot a side glance at Madame de Chavoncourt.
"She is very lenient to Monsieur de Savarus," she whispered to her
mother.
"You see," said the Baroness with a smile, "there is a question of a
marriage between Sidonie and Monsieur de Savarus."
Mademoiselle de Watteville hastily went to a window looking out over
the garden.
At ten o'clock Albert de Savarus had not yet appeared. The storm that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll: Delay will spoil the venison."
"My heart is wasted with my woe!
There is no rest - in Venice, on
The Bridge of Sighs!" she quoted low
From Byron and from Tennyson.
I need not tell of soup and fish
In solemn silence swallowed,
The sobs that ushered in each dish,
And its departure followed,
Nor yet my suicidal wish
To BE the cheese I hollowed.
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