| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: are wisest. They are the magi.
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: to forty, two more about four or five and twenty; and the fifth, a
tall, comely maiden, about seventeen. The women were well-
favoured, agreeable persons, both in shape and features, only
tawny; and two of them, had they been perfect white, would have
passed for very handsome women, even in London, having pleasant
countenances, and of a very modest behaviour; especially when they
came afterwards to be clothed and dressed, though that dress was
very indifferent, it must be confessed.
The sight, you may be sure, was something uncouth to our Spaniards,
who were, to give them a just character, men of the most calm,
sedate tempers, and perfect good humour, that ever I met with:
Robinson Crusoe |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac: luckless journey; but the volume of his repressed fancies and the
follies of youth might still get the better of him. Nevertheless, the
more knowledge he could get of the world and its laws, the better his
mind would form itself, and, provided Godeschal never lost sight of
him, Moreau flattered himself that between them they could bring the
son of Madame Clapart through in safety.
"How is he getting on?" asked the land-agent of Godeschal on his
return from one of his journeys which had kept him some months out of
Paris.
"Always too much vanity," replied Godeschal. "You give him fine
clothes and fine linen, he wears the shirt-fronts of a stockbroker,
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