| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: a fire over the Divide. Signa and Nelse were
staying on with Alexandra until winter.
"Ivar," Signa exclaimed as she wiped the
rain from her face, "do you know where she
is?"
The old man put down his cobbler's knife.
"Who, the mistress?"
"Yes. She went away about three o'clock. I
O Pioneers! |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: the various Courts of Europe.' It has been mine to give it to the
public.
Bibliography still helps us with a further glimpse of our
characters. I have here before me a small volume (printed for
private circulation: no printer's name; n.d.), 'Poesies par Frederic
et Amelie.' Mine is a presentation copy, obtained for me by Mr.
Bain in the Haymarket; and the name of the first owner is written on
the fly-leaf in the hand of Prince Otto himself. The modest
epigraph - 'Le rime n'est pas riche' - may be attributed, with a
good show of likelihood, to the same collaborator. It is strikingly
appropriate, and I have found the volume very dreary. Those pieces
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: But it doesn't charm yours truly when I'm on my homeward way;
For a greater joy awaits me, as I hunger for a bite--
Just the joy of pantry-prowling in the middle of the night.
The World Is Against Me
"The world is against me," he said with a sigh.
"Somebody stops every scheme that I try.
The world has me down and it's keeping me there;
I don't get a chance. Oh, the world is unfair!
When a fellow is poor then he can't get a show;
The world is determined to keep him down low."
"What of Abe Lincoln?" I asked. "Would you say
Just Folks |
