| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: here."
"And I didn't know you were within a thousand miles."
"We came back to Verden Thursday and are up over Sunday," she
explained.
He was lost in the witchery of the spell she cast over him. Not
the drooping maidenhair ferns through which she trailed were more
delicate or graceful than she. But some instinct in him played
surface commonplaces against the insurgent emotion of his heart.
"You like Washington?"
"I like home better."
"But you were popular at the capital. I read a great deal in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare: Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar
Above the morning lark: or wilt thou hunt?
Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them
And fetch shall echoes from the hollow earth.
FIRST SERVANT.
Say thou wilt course; thy greyhounds are as swift
As breathed stags; ay, fleeter than the roe.
SECOND SERVANT.
Dost thou love pictures? We will fetch thee straight
Adonis painted by a running brook,
And Cytherea all in sedges hid,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: dims the lustre of the stars. The people crowded around shouting
with wonder, and Abdallah, in the fulness of his delight, gave
orders to the slaves who bore the caskets of money to open them
and to throw the gold to the people. So, with those in the
streets scrambling and fighting for the money and shouting and
cheering, and others gazing down at the spectacle from the
windows and house-tops, the fagot-maker and his troop rode slowly
along through the town.
Now it chanced that their way led along past the royal palace,
and the princess, hearing all the shouting and the hubbub, looked
over the edge of the balcony and down into the street. At the
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