| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: that being the case, I'm going to set to work at your things till it
clears, and then we'll go for our ride."
"Yes," said Billy. When does a man get too old to marry?"
"I'm only a girl, you see. I don't know."
"Yes. Honey said he wouldn't 'a' thought Lin was that old. But I guess he
must be thirty."
"Old!" exclaimed Jessamine. And she looked at a photograph upon her
table.
"But Lin ain't been married very much," pursued Billy. "Mother's the only
one they speak of. You don't have to stay married always, do you?"
"It's better to," said Jessamine.
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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: she was not alone in the room. There had been no least sound, no
slightest stir to betray an alien presence. Yet that some one was
in the room she knew, and by some subtle sixth sense could even
put a name to the intruder.
Without turning she called over her shoulder: "Shall I finish the
waltz?" No faintest tremor in the clear, sweet voice betrayed the
racing heart.
"Y'u're a cool hand, my friend," came his ready answer. "But I
think we'll dispense with the music. I had enough last time to
serve me for twice."
She laughed as she swung on the stool, with that musical scorn
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: had fallen in love with Carolina Xime'no or Delfina
Rivera! Don Jose had an uneasy suspicion that his
scruples as a Catholic might have gone down before
his sense of duty to this poor California. But a
heretic in his own family! He was justly renowned
for his piety. Aside from the wrath of the church,
the mere thought of one of his offspring in matri-
monial community beyond its pale made him sick
with repugnance. And yet--California! And he
would have selected Rezanov for his daughter out
of all men had he been of their faith. And he was
Rezanov |
