| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Purse by Honore de Balzac: des Grieux admiring his mistress, and holding her as pure, even
on the cart which carries such lost creatures to prison. "Why
should not my love keep her the purest of women? Why abandon her
to evil and to vice without holding out a rescuing hand to her?"
The idea of this mission pleased him. Love makes a gain of
everything. Nothing tempts a young man more than to play the part
of a good genius to a woman. There is something inexplicably
romantic in such an enterprise which appeals to a highly-strung
soul. Is it not the utmost stretch of devotion under the loftiest
and most engaging aspect? Is there not something grand in the
thought that we love enough still to love on when the love of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: the afternoon I got easier in my mind--it seemed to me it must 'ave
been there so long it was pretty sure to stop a bit longer--and
I tried to get up a bit of a discussion to dror out the old man
and see what 'E thought of treasure trove."
Mr. Brisher paused, and affected amusement at the memory.
"The old man was a scorcher," he said; "a regular scorcher."
"What!" said I; "did he--?"
"It was like this," explained Mr. Brisher, laying a friendly hand
on my arm and breathing into my face to calm me. "Just to dror
'im out, I told a story of a chap I said I knew--pretendin', you
know--who'd found a sovring in a novercoat 'e'd borrowed. I said
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: thousand dollars he won yesterday. I knew he meant--"
"Yes, of course. It's a cowboy's way of saying that he means to
start housekeeping. Have you the telegram, Missou?" For that
young man was standing in the doorway.
He handed her the yellow slip. She ripped open the envelope and
read: Company B en route. Railroad connections uncertain Postpone
crisis long as possible. May reach Gimlet Butte by ten-thirty.
Her first thought was of unspeakable relief. The militia was
going to take a hand. The boys in khaki would come marching down
the street, and everything would be all right. But hard on the
heels of her instinctive gladness trod the sober second thought.
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