| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: together, he and his girl.
Old Grammont dozed off into dreamland.
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The imaginations of Mr. Gunter Lake, two days behind Mr.
Grammont upon the Atlantic, were of a gentler, more romantic
character. In them V.V. was no longer a daughter in the
fierce focus of a father's jealousy, but the goddess
enshrined in a good man's heart. Indeed the figure that the
limelight of the reverie fell upon was not V.V. at all but
Mr. Gunter Lake himself, in his favourite role of the perfect
lover.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: will flock to you;
But let dishonor trail you and some stormy day
you'll find
To your heart's supremest sorrow that you've
made the world unkind.
THE STATES
There is no star within the flag
That's brighter than its brothers,
And when of Michigan I brag,
I'm boasting of the others.
Just which is which no man can say --
A Heap O' Livin' |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: ``And if he be the devil,'' replied De Bracy,
``would you fly from him into the mouth of hell?
---the castle burns behind us, villains!---let despair
give you courage, or let me forward! I will cope
with this champion myself''
And well and chivalrous did De Bracy that day
maintain the fame he had acquired in the civil wars
of that dreadful period. The vaulted passage to
which the postern gave entrance, and in which these
two redoubted champions were now fighting hand
to hand, rung with the furious blows which they
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