| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: --soft, yellow, and silky. His eyes were as blue as steel, and
quick and sharp in glance as those of a hawk; and as he walked,
his arms swung from his broad, square shoulders, and his body
swayed with pent-up strength ready for action at any moment.
If little Lady Alice, hearing much talk of his doings and of his
promise in these latter times, thought of him now and then it is
a matter not altogether to be wondered at.
Such were the changes that three years had wrought. And from now
the story of his manhood really begins.
Perhaps in all the history of Devlen Castle, even at this, the
high tide of pride and greatness of the house of Beaumont, the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: marks of respect due to him, and they attach more importance to
his slightest privileges than he does himself. In France a few
of these old servants of the aristocracy are still to be met with
here and there; they have survived their race, which will soon
disappear with them altogether. In the United States I never saw
anyone at all like them. The Americans are not only unacquainted
with the kind of man, but it is hardly possible to make them
understand that such ever existed. It is scarcely less difficult
for them to conceive it, than for us to form a correct notion of
what a slave was amongst the Romans, or a serf in the Middle
Ages. All these men were in fact, though in different degrees,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
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