| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: think."
"But it will. If he should ride now, why--It would be the same as
murder," she gasped. "You wouldn't make him ride now?"
"Didn't y'u hear him order his hawss, ma'am? He's keen on this
ride. Of course he don't have to go unless he wants to." The man
turned his villainous smile on his cousin, and the latter
interpreted it to mean that if he preferred, the point of attack
might be shifted to the girl. He might go or he might stay. But
if he stayed the mistress of the Lazy D would have to pay for his
decision.
"No, I'll ride," he said at once.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: like Romans when their commander should think fit to employ them.
Further he ordered, that the sentinels by night should watch without
javelins, that thus they might be more careful and surer to resist sleep,
having no arms to defend themselves against any attacks of an enemy.
What most annoyed the army was the want of water; for only a little, and
that foul, flowed out, or rather came by drops from a spring adjoining
the sea; but Aemilius, considering that he was at the foot of the high
and woody mountain Olympus, and conjecturing by the flourishing growth of
the trees that there were springs that had their course under ground, dug
a great many holes and wells along the foot of the mountain, which were
presently filled with pure water escaping from its confinement into the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: ultimatum.
"I object to Miss Grammont and that side of the thing, more
than I do to Miss Seyffert."
Sir Richmond said nothing.
"It may help you to see this affair from a slightly different
angle if I tell you that twice today Miss Seyffert has asked
me if you were a married man."
"And of course you told her I was."
"On the second occasion."
Sir Richmond smiled again.
"Frankly," said the doctor, "this adventure is altogether
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