| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Padre Ignacio by Owen Wister: which lay inland a little way up the gorge where it opened among the
hills. Thus the world reached these missions by water; while on land,
through the mountains, a road led to them, and also to many more that
were too distant behind the hills for ships to serve--a rough road, long
and lonely, punctuated with church towers and gardens. For the Fathers
gradually so stationed their settlements that the traveler might each
morning ride out from one mission and by evening of a day's fair journey
ride into the next. A lonely, rough, dangerous road, but lovely, too,
with a name like music--El Camino Real. Like music also were the names of
the missions--San Juan Capistrano, San Luis Rey de Francia, San Miguel,
Santa Ynes--their very list is a song.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: Isaac, or the Huntsman of Hogley Woods,' he met with a severe fall,
through treading on a butter-slide, which the twins had constructed
from the entrance of the Tapestry Chamber to the top of the oak
staircase. This last insult so enraged him, that he resolved to
make one final effort to assert his dignity and social position,
and determined to visit the insolent young Etonians the next night
in his celebrated character of 'Reckless Rupert, or the Headless
Earl.'
He had not appeared in this disguise for more than seventy years;
in fact, not since he had so frightened pretty Lady Barbara Modish
by means of it, that she suddenly broke off her engagement with the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: sheriffs here." He turned on his heel with an insolent laugh, and
left the sheriff alone with Dailey.
The superb contempt of the man, his readiness to give the sheriff
a chance to pump out of Dailey all he knew, served to warn
Collins that his life was in imminent danger. On no hypothesis
save one--that Leroy had already condemned them both to death in
his mind--could he account for such rashness. And that the blow
would fall soon, before he had time to confer with other
officers, was a corollary to the first proposition.
"He'll surely kill me on sight," Scott burst out.
"Yes, he'll kill you," agreed the sheriff, "unless you move
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