| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: I looked and oh Heaven! there before me with outstretched arms
and infinite yearning on her face, stood Mameena, Mameena as I
had last seen her after I gave her the promised kiss that she
used to cover her taking of the poison. For five seconds,
mayhap, she stood thus, living, wonderful, but still as death,
the fierce light showing all. Then the flame died down again and
she was gone.
I turned and next instant was out of the hut, pursued by the
terrible laughter of Zikali.
CHAPTER XII
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: "You are considering how insupportable it would be to pass
many evenings in this manner-- in such society; and indeed I am
quite of you opinion. I was never more annoyed! The insipidity,
and yet the noise-- the nothingness, and yet the self-importance
of all those people! What would I give to hear your strictures on
them!"
"You conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was
more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very
great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty
woman can bestow."
Miss Bingley immediately fixed her eyes on his face, a desired he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Domestic Peace by Honore de Balzac: honors. These grand balls were always an opportunity seized upon by
wealthy families for introducing their heiresses to Napoleon's
Praetorian Guard, in the foolish hope of exchanging their splendid
fortunes for uncertain favors. The women who believed themselves
strong enough in their beauty alone came to test their power. There,
as elsewhere, amusement was but a blind. Calm and smiling faces and
placid brows covered sordid interests, expressions of friendship were
a lie, and more than one man was less distrustful of his enemies than
of his friends.
These remarks are necessary to explain the incidents of the little
imbroglio which is the subject of this study, and the picture,
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