| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sarrasine by Honore de Balzac: of reception-rooms, we entered a small semi-circular cabinet. My
companion threw herself on a divan, breathing fast with terror, not
knowing where she was.
"You are mad, madame," I said to her.
"But," she rejoined, after a moment's silence, during which I gazed at
her in admiration, "is it my fault? Why does Madame de Lanty allow
ghosts to wander round her house?"
"Nonsense," I replied; "you are doing just what fools do. You mistake
a little old man for a spectre."
"Hush," she retorted, with the imposing, yet mocking, air which all
women are so well able to assume when they are determined to put
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott: could for their own town, and he thought Lord Ravenwood, since he
was a lord, might have enough to do to look after his own
castle. As to any threats of stouthrief oppression, by rule of
thumb, or via facti, as the law termed it, he would have Mr.
Balderstone recollect, that new times were not as old times; that
they lived on the south of the Forth, and far from the Highlands;
that his clients thought they were able to protect themselves;
but should they find themselves mistaken, they would apply to the
government for the protection of a corporal and four red-coats,
who," said Mr. Dingwall, with a grin, "would be perfectly able to
secure them against Lord Ravenswood, and all that he or his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: globe.
But I felt no apprehension. I was familiar
enough with the Archipelago by that time. Ex-
treme patience and extreme care would see me
through the region of broken land, of faint airs, and
of dead water to where I would feel at last my
command swing on the great swell and list over to
the great breath of regular winds, that would give
her the feeling of a large, more intense life. The
road would be long. All roads are long that lead
toward one's heart's desire. But this road my
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