| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: smile as Myles had never thought to have seen upon his haughty
face; "I crave your good leave to decline. I must return home
presently, for even now, haply, your uncle, his Grace of
Winchester, is awaiting my coming upon the business you wot of.
Haply your Highness will find more joyance in a lusty young
knight like Sir Myles than in an old fox like myself. So I leave
him with you, in your good care."
Such was Myles's introduction to the wild young madcap Prince of
Wales, afterwards the famous Henry V, the conqueror of France.
For a month or more thereafter he was a member of the princely
household, and, after a little while, a trusted and honored
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: A cockade, a lapell'd coat, and a feather, they will
tell you, are irresistible by a female heart. Let it be
so. Who is it that considers the helpless situation of
our sex, that does not see that we each moment stand
in need of a protector, and that a brave one too?
Formed of the more delicate materials of nature,
endowed only with the softer passions, incapable,
from our ignorance of the world, to guard against the
wiles of mankind, our security for happiness often
depends upon their generosity and courage. Alas!
how little of the former do we find! How inconsis-
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: 'Well, here we are, but heaven only knows where!' said Nikita.
The horse kept straight along the road through the drifted
snow, and before they had gone another hundred yards the
straight line of the dark wattle wall of a barn showed up black
before them, its roof heavily covered with snow which poured
down from it. After passing the barn the road turned to the
wind and they drove into a snow-drift. But ahead of them was a
lane with houses on either side, so evidently the snow had been
blown across the road and they had to drive through the drift.
And so in fact it was. Having driven through the snow they
came out into a street. At the end house of the village some
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