| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: and melancholy. One could easily believe that in
that dead landscape the germs of life and fruit-
fulness were extinct forever.
Alexandra has settled back into her old
routine. There are weekly letters from Emil.
Lou and Oscar she has not seen since Carl
went away. To avoid awkward encounters in
the presence of curious spectators, she has
stopped going to the Norwegian Church and
drives up to the Reform Church at Hanover,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: "He is following me," said Diana, and, indeed, a step could be heard
in the passage.
"The letter!" growled Richard in a frenzy, between fear and anger now.
"Give it me! Give it me do you hear?"
"Sh! You'll betray yourself," she cried. "He is here."
And at that same moment Mr. Wilding's tall figure, still arrayed in his
bridegroom's finery of sky-blue satin, loomed in the doorway. He was
serene and calm as ever. Neither the discovery of the plot by the
abstraction of the messenger's letter, nor Ruth's strange conduct - of
which he had heard from Lord Gervase - had sufficed to ruffle, outwardly
at least, the inscrutable serenity of his air and manner. He paused
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: arranged that there will be as little risk of the horse's food being
stolen from the manger, as of the master's from his larder or store-
closet. To neglect a detail of this kind is surely to neglect oneself;
since in the hour of danger, it is certain, the owner has to consign
himself, life and limb, to the safe keeping of his horse.
[1] Lit. "To proceed: when you have bought a horse which you admire
and have brought him home."
[2] i.e. "where he will be brought as frequently as possible under the
master's eye." Cf. "Econ." xii. 20.
Nor is it only to avoid the risk of food being stolen that a secure
horse-box is desirable, but for the further reason that if the horse
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