| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: "How long has it been?" he next asked her.
She told him.
"Well, if it could be forever--no. Not forever with no more than
this. I reckon I'd be sick again! But if it could be forever with
just you and me, and no one else to bother with. But any longer
would not be doing right by your mother. She would have a right
to think ill of me."
"Oh!" said the girl. "Let us keep it."
"Not after I am gone. Your mother must be told."
"It seems so--can't we--oh, why need anybody know?"
"Your mother ain't 'anybody.' She is your mother. I feel mighty
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ebb-Tide by Stevenson & Osbourne: never understand it! There's been more waste on this twopenny
ship than what there is to an Atlantic Liner.' He stole a glance
at his companions; nothing good was to be gleaned from their dark
faces; and he had recourse to rage. 'You wait till I interview
that cook!' he roared and smote the table with his fist. 'I'll
interview the son of a gun so's he's never been spoken to before.
I'll put a bead upon the--'
'You will not lay a finger on the man,' said Herrick. 'The fault
is yours and you know it. If you turn a savage loose in your
store-room, you know what to expect. I will not allow the man
to be molested.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: into separate bodies, each of them a family by itself. In their
turn these again divided, and so the process went on. This
principle has worked universally, the only difference in its action
among different races being the greater or less degree of the
evolving motion. With us the social system has been turning more
and more rapidly with time. In the Far East its force, instead of
increasing, would seem to have decreased, enabling the nebula of its
original condition to keep together as a single mass, so that to-day
a whole nation, resembling a nebula indeed in homogeneity, is swayed
by a single patriarchal principle. Here, on the contrary, so rapid
has the motion become that even brethren find themselves scattered
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