| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Padre Ignacio by Owen Wister: he cried.
"But Santa YsabeI del Mar is a long way from the whole world," murmured
Padre Ignacio.
"Indeed, it would not appear to be so," returned young Gaston. "I think
the Comedie Francaise must be round the corner."
A thrill went through the priest at the theater's name. "And have you
been long in America?" he asked.
"Why, always--except two years of foreign travel after college."
"An American!" exclaimed the surprised Padre, with perhaps a tone of
disappointment in his voice. "But no Americans who are yet come this way
have been--have been"--he veiled the too-blunt expression of his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: you ever think of that before?"
"Masie," said Carter, earnestly, "you surely
know that I love you. I ask you sincerely to marry
me. You know me well enough by this time to have
no doubts of me. I want you, and I must have you.
I care nothing for the difference in our stations."
"What is the difference?" asked Masie, curi-
ously.
"Well, there isn't any," said Carter, quickly, "ex-
cept in the minds of foolish people. It is in my power
to give you a life of luxury. My social position is be-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: objects of sight, and a thrill in all noises for the ear, and
Romance herself has made her dwelling among men? So we come
back to the old myth, and hear the goat-footed piper making
the music which is itself the charm and terror of things; and
when a glen invites our visiting footsteps, fancy that Pan
leads us thither with a gracious tremolo; or when our hearts
quail at the thunder of the cataract, tell ourselves that he
has stamped his hoof in the nigh thicket.
CHAPTER XII - A PLEA FOR GAS LAMPS
CITIES given, the problem was to light them. How to
conduct individual citizens about the burgess-warren, when
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