| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke: and that had wear in it, and that made things go right instead of
tangling them up, was too much like duty to make satisfactory
reading for people of sentiment."--E. S. MARTIN: My Cousin Anthony.
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is
another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a
month.
The first day of spring is due to arrive, if the calendar does not
break down, about the twenty-first of March, when the earth turns
the corner of Sun Alley and starts for Summer Street. But the first
spring day is not on the time-table at all. It comes when it is
ready, and in the latitude of New York this is usually not till
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: ducked too quick, an' changed my position.
"Ladies an' gentlemen, thet there was some dool by night. An' I
wasn't often in the place where they shot. I was most wonderful
patient, an' jest waited until one of them darned ruffians would
get so nervous he'd hev to hunt me up. When mornin' come there
they was all piled up on the floor, all shot to pieces. I found
the gurl. Purty! Say, she was boo-tiful. We went down to the
river, where she begun to bathe my wounds. I'd collected a dozen
more or so, an' the sight of tears in her lovely eyes, an' my
blood a-stainin' of her little hands, jest nat'rally wakened a
trembly spell in my heart. I seen she was took the same way, an'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo: were publishing, with the King's sanction, no one knows what strangely
disorganizing writings, which were eagerly read by the unfortunate.
Some of these publications, odd to say, which were patronized
by a prince, are to be found in the Secret Library. These facts,
significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the surface.
Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger.
It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers,
the one who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy
gallery was Restif de La Bretonne.
This work, peculiar to the whole of Europe, effected more ravages
in Germany than anywhere else. In Germany, during a given period,
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