| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: exultant, shouting with laughter, and taunting Myles at every
unsuccessful stroke.
Once, as he drew back panting, leaning upon Gascoyne's shoulder,
the faithful friend whispered, with trembling lips: "Oh, dear
Myles, carry it no further. Thou hurtest him not, and he will
slay thee ere he have done with thee."
Thereupon Blunt, who caught the drift of the speech, put in a
word. "Thou art sore hurt, Myles Falworth," said he, "and I would
do thee no grievous harm. Yield thee and own thyself beaten, and
I will forgive thee. Thou hast fought a good fight, and there is
no shame in yielding now."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: the safe deposit vault. Which was very unfair, for what had my
necklace to do with it? And just now, when I need comfort, it--the
necklace--would help to releive my exile.
Hannah brought me in a cup of hot milk, with a Valentine's malted
milk tablet dissolved in it.
As I stirred it around, it occurred to me that Valentine would be
a good name for Harold. On the spot I named him Harold Valentine,
and I wrote the name on the envelope that had the poem inside, and
addressed it to the town where this school gets its mail.
It looked well written out. "Valentine," also, is a word that
naturaly connects itself with AFFAIRS DE COUR. And I felt that I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift: although I confess they learn the rudiments much earlier; during
which time they can however be properly looked upon only as
probationers: As I have been informed by a principal gentleman in
the county of Cavan, who protested to me, that he never knew
above one or two instances under the age of six, even in a part
of the kingdom so renowned for the quickest proficiency in that
art.
I am assured by our merchants, that a boy or a girl before twelve
years old, is no saleable commodity, and even when they come to
this age, they will not yield above three pounds, or three pounds
and half a crown at most, on the exchange; which cannot turn to
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