| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: eyes took in again his compelling devil-may-care charm. She was a
tenderfoot, but intuition as well as experience taught her that
he was unusual enough to be one of ten thousand. No young Greek
god's head could have risen more superbly above the brick-tanned
column of the neck than this close-cropped curly one. Gray eyes,
deep and unwavering and masterful, looked out of a face as brown
as Wyoming. He was got up with no thought of effect, but the
tigerish litheness, the picturesque competency of him, spake
louder than costuming.
"Aren't you really hurt worse than you pretend? I'm sure your
ankle ought to be attended to as soon as possible."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of the Registered Letter by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: I sit here and tell you how much your love, your great tenderness,
your sweet trust in me, meant to me.
Let me talk rather of Albert Graumann. I will forgive him for
believing in my guilt, but I cannot forgive him that he, the man
of cultivation and mental grasp, could not believe it possible for
a convicted thief to have repented and to have lived an honest life
after the atonement of his crime. I still cannot believe that this
was Graumann's opinion. I am forced to think that it was an excuse
only on his part, an excuse to keep us apart, an excuse to keep you
for himself.
You are lost to me now. There is nothing more in life for me. If
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: go to the Mission this morning. Hast thou seen the
Russians, Rosa?"
"I have seen them, senorita. Did I not serve at
table yesterday?"
"True; I had forgotten. What didst thou think
of them?"
"What matters it to such great folk what a poor
Indian girl thinks of them? They are very fair,
which may be the fashion in their country; but I
am not accustomed to it; and I like not beards."
"His excellency wore no beard--he who sat on
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