| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: nor reverence vaulted aisle but that of the greenwood canopy.
They are twin plants of the forest, and are identified with its growth.
For the slender beech and the sapling oak,
That grow by the shadowy rill,
You may cut down both at a single stroke,
You may cut down which you will.
But this you must know, that as long as they grow
Whatever change may be,
You never can teach either oak or beech
To be aught but a greenwood tree."
CHAPTER III
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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: listening to him.
As the two advanced steadily towards one another a breathless
silence fell upon the dormitory in sharp contrast to the uproar
and confusion that had filled it a moment before. The lads,
standing some upon benches, some upon beds, all watched with
breathless interest the meeting of the two champions.
As they approached one another they stopped and stood for a
moment a little apart, glaring the one upon the other. They
seemed ill enough matched; Blunt was fully half a head taller
than Myles, and was thick-set and close-knit in young manhood.
Nothing but Myles's undaunted pluck could have led him to dare to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: the influence of her surroundings, and in him, had kept alive the
faith that now drew him penitent and reconciled to her side.
He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment
to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the
word which made all clear.
THE END
Notes:
1. I have modernized this text by modernizing the contractions:
do n't becomes don't, etc.
2. I have retained the British spelling of words like favour and
colour.
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