| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: tells her a measly little three hundred pound.
"But she wasn't refined like my little woman,"
says Watty, "and when I seen that I passed her
up." And inch by inch Watty coaxed her clean
off of him.
But the next day she hearn him and Mrs. Ostrich
giggling about something, and she has a reg'lar
tantrum, and jest fur meanness goes out and falls
down on the race track, pertending she has fainted,
and they can't move her no ways, not even roll
her. But finally they rousted her out of that by
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: saying that the challenger was ready, and then Myles knew the
time had come, and reaching down and giving Sir James a grip of
the hand, he drew on his gauntlet, took the jousting lance that
Wilkes handed him, and turned his horse's head towards his end of
the lists.
CHAPTER 27
As Myles took his place at the south end of the lists, he found
the Sieur de la Montaigne already at his station. Through the
peep-hole in the face of the huge helmet, a transverse slit known
as the occularium, he could see, like a strange narrow picture,
the farther end of the lists, the spectators upon either side
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: are wisest. They are the magi.
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
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