| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen: "Nay, is it really thou?" said the learned man. "It is most remarkable: I
never imagined that one's old shadow could come again as a man."
"Tell me what I have to pay," said the shadow; "for I don't like to be in any
sort of debt."
"How canst thou talk so?" said the learned man. "What debt is there to talk
about? Make thyself as free as anyone else. I am extremely glad to hear of thy
good fortune: sit down, old friend, and tell me a little how it has gone with
thee, and what thou hast seen at our opposite neighbor's there--in the warm
lands."
"Yes, I will tell you all about it," said the shadow, and sat down: "but then
you must also promise me, that, wherever you may meet me, you will never say
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: "So everybody tells me, but it seems to me he spills a good deal
of lead on my men," she answered impatiently. "What's the
trouble?"
"Last week he crossed the dead-line with a bunch of five thousand
sheep."
"Who draws this dead-line?"
"The cattlemen got together and drew it. Your uncle was one of
those that marked it off, ma'am."
"And Bannister crossed it?"
"Yes, ma'am. Yesterday 'Frisco come on him and one of his herders
with a big bunch of them less than fifteen miles from here. He
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: BEDFORD.
It grieves me for to see his sudden fall.
GARDINER.
Such success wish I to traitors still.
[Exeunt.]
ACT V. SCENE IV. London. A street.
[Enter two Citizens.]
FIRST CITIZEN.
Why, can this news be true? ist possible?
The great Lord Cromwell arrested upon treason!
I hardly will believe it can be so.
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