| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: her disappointments. She remembered only that this strong man lay there at
death's door because he had resented an insult to her. The past with all its
bitterness rolled away and was lost, and in its place welled up a tide of
forgiveness strong and sweet and hopeful. Her love, like a fire that had been
choked and smothered, smouldering but never extinct, and which blazes up with
the first breeze, warmed and quickened to life with the touch of her hand on
his forehead.
An hour passed. Betty was now at her ease and happier than she had been for
months. Her patient continued to sleep peacefully and dreamlessly. With a
feeling of womanly curiosity Betty looked around the room. Over the rude
mantelpiece were hung a sword, a brace of pistols, and two pictures. These
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: dog sicken Jenny with his nauseous pawings, until she
flies into my arms for very ease. How sweet will the
contrast be between the blundering Jonathan and
the courtly and accomplished Jessamy!
END OF THE SECOND ACT.
ACT III. SCENE I.
DIMPLE'S Room.
DIMPLE discovered at a Toilet, Reading.
"WOMEN have in general but one object, which is
their beauty." Very true, my lord; positively very
true. "Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: firstlings and the fat thereof were to him the dearest things in
the world; yet he gave them over that he might be on good terms
with God. So it was with Abraham when he prepared to offer up his
son Isaac on a stone. Isaac was very dear to him; but God, in
incomprehensible ways, was yet dearer. It may be that Abraham
feared the Lord. But whether that be true or not it has since been
determined by a few billion people that he loved the Lord and
desired to serve him.
And since it has been determined that love is service, and since to
renounce is to serve, then Jees Uck, who was merely a woman of a
swart-skinned breed, loved with a great love. She was unversed in
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