| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pierre Grassou by Honore de Balzac: examine each picture.
"Three thousand francs," said Vervelle in a whisper, as they reached
the last, "but I tell everybody forty thousand."
"Forty thousand for a Titian!" said the artist, aloud. "Why, it is
nothing at all!"
"Didn't I tell you," said Vervelle, "that I had three hundred thousand
francs' worth of pictures?"
"I painted those pictures," said Pierre Grassou in Vervelle's ear,
"and I sold them one by one to Elie Magus for less than ten thousand
francs the whole lot."
"Prove it to me," said the bottle-dealer, "and I double my daughter's
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: That he might advance his people!"
Ye who love the haunts of Nature,
Love the sunshine of the meadow,
Love the shadow of the forest,
Love the wind among the branches,
And the rain-shower and the snow-storm,
And the rushing of great rivers
Through their palisades of pine-trees,
And the thunder in the mountains,
Whose innumerable echoes
Flap like eagles in their eyries;-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: queen dined publicly in ancient state, whilst rare music was
discoursed, and many ceremonies observed, amongst these being
that each servitor of the royal table should eat some bread
dipped in sauce of the dish he bore. On these occasions meats
for the king's table were brought from the kitchen by yeomen of
the guard, or beef-eaters. These men, selected as being amongst
the handsomest, strongest, and tallest in England, were dressed
in liveries of red cloth, faced with black velvet, having the
king's cipher on the back, and on the breast the emblems of the
Houses of York and Lancaster. By them the dishes were handed to
the gentlemen in waiting, who served royalty upon their knees.
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