| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: so, when it comes to me through YOU--is surely more than a
triumph for self-love? No one has been willing to introduce me
into that set. Perhaps just now I may seem to you to be
frivolous, petty, shallow, like a Parisienne, but remember, my
friend, that I am ready to give up all for you; and that if I
long more than ever for an entrance into the Faubourg Saint-
Germain, it is because I shall meet you there."
"Mme. de Beauseant's note seems to say very plainly that she does
not expect to see the BARON de Nucingen at her ball; don't you
think so?" said Eugene.
"Why, yes," said the Baroness as she returned the letter. "Those
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: As I with sudden and extemporal speech
Purpose to answer what thou canst object.
GLOUCESTER.
Presumptuous priest! this place commands my patience,
Or thou shouldst find thou hast dishonor'd me.
Think not, although in writing I preferr'd
The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes,
That therefore I have forged, or am not able
Verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen:
No, prelate; such is thy audacious wickedness,
Thy lewd, pestiferous and dissentious pranks,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: Tods' father, giving Tods three prunes, some water in a glass that
had been used for claret, and telling him to sit still. Tods sucked
the prunes slowly, knowing that he would have to go when they were
finished, and sipped the pink water like a man of the world, as he
listened to the conversation. Presently, the Legal Member, talking
"shop," to the Head of a Department, mentioned his Bill by its full
name--"The Sub-Montane Tracts Ryotwari Revised Enactment." Tods
caught the one native word, and lifting up his small voice said:--
"Oh, I know ALL about that! Has it been murramutted yet, Councillor
Sahib?"
"How much?" said the Legal Member.
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