| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: "It is quite rational. Let us see what the something is.
So far in our dealings with principalities and powers, we
have had a stout little man--with no background."
The prince was startled when he was told of this sudden
journey, but declared that he would follow them
to-morrow.
Lucy, as usual, asked no questions, but calmly packed her
satchel.
As the little train, the next day, lumbered through the
valley of the Eisach, she sat in her corner, reading a
newspaper. Miss Vance dozed, or woke with a start to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: flavor about such a highhanded proceeding. "However did you get
it here?" he queried.
"I got a four-wheeler and come over direct, sir. Good job I
'appened to 'ave the chaynge about me."
"You came up High Street, up Piccadilly, through the
Haymarket and Trafalgar Square, and into the Strand?" queried
MacMaster with a relish.
"Yes, sir. Of course, sir, " assented James with surprise.
MacMaster laughed delightedly. "It was a beautiful idea,
James, but I'm afraid we can't carry it any further."
"I was thinkin' as 'ow it would be a rare chance to get you to take
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: that the gold standard was a game by which the East was robbing
the West, and the only way the people of the West could save
themselves was to move East and clip bonds or else change the
color of the money!
This is the way it looked to me as a working man, and I hope my
good friend Bryan will pardon me for writing of his "great
paramount issue" in a joking way. For after all it was a joke, a
harmless joke--because we didn't adopt it. I got excited by the
threatened "remedy" and went into politics. While the tin trade
was on strike, crazy propagandists from everywhere poured into
Elwood and began teaching the men bi-metalism, communism,
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