| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: No lovers with close arm-encircled waists
To whisper and break in upon our dreams.
And now we have it! Every wish comes true!
We are alone now in a fleecy world;
Even the stars have gone. We two alone!
[End of Love Songs.]
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which was at the end of this edition, is included.
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By the same author
Rivers to the Sea
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: not the treatment he has been pursuing for the last three
years neutralized the effects of the poison?"
"Oh, heaven," said Valentine; "is this the reason why
grandpapa has made me share all his beverages during the
last month?"
"And have they all tasted of a slightly bitter flavor, like
that of dried orange-peel?"
"Oh, yes, yes!"
"Then that explains all," said Monte Cristo. "Your
grandfather knows, then, that a poisoner lives here; perhaps
he even suspects the person. He has been fortifying you, his
The Count of Monte Cristo |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from O Pioneers! by Willa Cather: out here, and we ain't afraid, neither. You
fellows back there must be a tame lot. If you
had any nerve you'd get together and march
down to Wall Street and blow it up. Dyna-
mite it, I mean," with a threatening nod.
He was so much in earnest that Carl scarcely
knew how to answer him. "That would be a
waste of powder. The same business would go on
in another street. The street doesn't matter.
But what have you fellows out here got to kick
O Pioneers! |
