| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: her eyes, and she fixed them upon McLean's dogged face. "He's gone, Lin,"
she murmured, raising her hand where Barker had disappeared.
She knew McLean had heard her, and she held back on the quickened pace
that he had set.
"Leave me down. You hurt," she pleaded, hanging on him.
The cow-puncher put forth more strength.
"Just the floor," she pleaded again. "Just one minute on the floor. He'll
think you could not keep me lifted."
Still McLean made no answer, but steadily led her round and round, as he
had undertaken.
"He's playing out!" she exclaimed. "You'll be played out soon." She
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: for me! Deus Venter, quotha? 'Twas Deus Cupid, it was!"
A roar of laughter followed this announcement.
"What?" asked Frank; "was it Cupid, then, who sneezed approval to
our love, Jack, as he did to that of Dido and Aeneas?"
But Jack went on desperately.
"I was in the next room, drinking of my beer. I couldn't help
that, could I? And then I heard her name; and I couldn't help
listening then. Flesh and blood couldn't."
"Nor fat either!"
"No, nor fat, Mr. Cary. Do you suppose fat men haven't souls to be
saved as well as thin ones, and hearts to burst, too, as well as
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts
were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it--
all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered
from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war,
insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war--
seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation.
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather
than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather
than let it perish. And the war came.
One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed
generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it.
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