| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: Of course in a day or two all the body of squires knew nearly
everything concerning the Knights of the Rose, and of their
secret meetings in the old tower. The lucky twenty were the
objects of envy of all not so fortunate as to be included in this
number, and there was a marked air of secrecy about everything
they did that appealed to every romantic notion of the youngsters
looking on. What was the stormy outcome of it all is now
presently to be told.
CHAPTER 12
Thus it was that Myles, with an eye to open war with the
bachelors, gathered a following to his support. It was some
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: to buzz suddenly and then die because all the people hurried away to some
newer town and left the houses and stores standing empty. But Mr.
Beverly's mother got some, and all your hesitation fled. And now I see
that the Gulf, Galveston, and Little Rock is going to build a branch that
may make Philippi a perfectly evaporated town. If you sold these bonds
to-day, how much would you lose?'"
"I did not enjoy telling Ethel how much, but I had to. 'Only fifteen
thousand dollars,' I said."
"'Only!' said Ethel. 'Well, I hope his mother will lose a great deal
more than that.'"
"It is seldom that Ethel taps her foot, but she had begun to tap it now;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: Enchas'd with all the honours of the world?
If so, gaze on, and grovel on thy face,
Until thy head be circled with the same.
Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.
What, is't too short? I'll lengthen it with mine,
And, having both together heav'd it up,
We'll both together lift our heads to heaven,
And never more abase our sight so low
As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground.
GLOSTER.
O Nell, sweet Nell, if thou dost love thy lord,
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