| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: irritating final grin at the box.
"Good-by, sir woman-hater," he jeered at me from the door.
So he wore one of the roses she had sent me, to luncheon with her,
and I lay back among my pillows and tried to remember that it was
his game, anyhow, and that I wasn't even drawing cards. To remember
that, and to forget the broken necklace under my head!
CHAPTER XIII
FADED ROSES
I was in the house for a week. Much of that time I spent in
composing and destroying letters of thanks to Miss West, and in
growling at the doctor. McKnight dropped in daily, but he was less
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: On the sole Arabian tree,
Herald sad and trumpet be,
To whose sound chaste wings obey.
But thou, shrieking harbinger,
Foul pre-currer of the fiend,
Augur of the fever's end,
To this troop come thou not near.
From this session interdict
Every fowl of tyrant wing,
Save the eagle, feather'd king:
Keep the obsequy so strict.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: friendly observations on men and things, (and a few true fish-
stories,) then perhaps you may find something here not unworthy
your perusal. And so I wish that your winter fire may burn clear
and bright while you read these pages; and that the summer days may
be fair, and the fish may rise merrily to your fly, whenever you
follow one of these little rivers.
1895.
A LEAF OF SPEARMINT
RECOLLECTIONS OF A BOY AND A ROD.
"It puzzles me now, that I remember all these young impressions so,
because I took no heed of them at the time whatever; and yet they
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