| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: Diana's own beams. I will take place in the boat which the
ladies occupy, and permit this young cavalier his hour of
promised felicity."
The Queen replied, with an expression betwixt mirth and earnest,
"If you are so willing to leave us, my lord, we cannot help the
mortification. But, under favour, we do not trust you--old and
experienced as you may deem yourself--with the care of our young
ladies of honour. Your venerable age, my lord," she continued,
smiling, "may be better assorted with that of my Lord Treasurer,
who follows in the third boat, and by whose experience even my
Lord Willoughby's may be improved."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: the lawfully constituted authorities of the county. Even if they
should escape to-day the net would tighten on them, and they
would eventually be captured.
For the third time since coming to Wyoming Helen found refuge in
tears.
CHAPTER 17. RUN TO EARTH
When word came to Denver and the other punchers of the Lazy D
that Reddy had been pressed into service as a guide for the posse
that was pursuing the fugitives they gave vent to their feelings
in choice profanity.
"Now, ain't that like him? Had to run around like a locoed calf
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: baby."
He opened his eyes, and shrieked loudly at the sight of the
Child-Who-Was-Tired. From the next room she heard the Frau call out to
her.
"One moment--he is almost asleep," she cried.
And then gently, smiling, on tiptoe, she brought the pink bolster from the
Frau's bed and covered the baby's face with it, pressed with all her might
as he struggled, "like a duck with its head off, wriggling", she thought.
She heaved a long sigh, then fell back on to the floor, and was walking
along a little white road with tall black trees on either side, a little
road that led to nowhere, and where nobody walked at all--nobody at all.
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