| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: honesty!" our friend replied; but as he closed the door behind him
sharply, thinking he had not done himself much good, while Mr.
Moreen lighted another cigarette, he heard his hostess shout after
him more touchingly
"Oh you do, you DO, put the knife to one's throat!"
The next morning, very early, she came to his room. He recognised
her knock, but had no hope she brought him money; as to which he
was wrong, for she had fifty francs in her hand. She squeezed
forward in her dressing-gown, and he received her in his own,
between his bath-tub and his bed. He had been tolerably schooled
by this time to the "foreign ways" of his hosts. Mrs. Moreen was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Study of a Woman by Honore de Balzac: "Ah ca! Joseph; I shall soon have to send you away, my lad."
"What is it, monsieur?"
"You do nothing but make mistakes. Where did you carry those letters I
gave you Saturday?"
Joseph became stolid. Like a statue in some cathedral porch, he stood
motionless, entirely absorbed in the labors of imagination. Suddenly
he smiled idiotically, and said:--
"Monsieur, one was for the Marquise de Listomere, the other was for
Monsieur's lawyer."
"You are certain of what you say?"
Joseph was speechless. I saw plainly that I must interfere, as I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: out the necklace that the Lady Alice had given him the day
before.
"Tie me this around my arm," said he. He looked down, keeping his
eyes studiously fixed on Gascoyne's fingers, as they twined the
thin golden chain around the iron plates of his right arm,
knowing that Lord George's eyes were upon him, and blushing fiery
red at the knowledge.
Sir James was at that moment examining the great tilting helm,
and Lord George watched him, smiling amusedly. "And hast thou
then already chosen thee a lady?" he said, presently.
"Aye, my Lord," answered Myles, simply.
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