| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: him this time."
By-and-by he met a poor woman coming home from market. "Would you
like to buy a fine fresh loaf of bread?" said the beggar.
"Yes, I would," said the woman.
"Well, here is one you may have for two pennies," said the
beggar.
That was cheap enough, so the woman paid him his price and off
she went with the loaf of bread under her arm, and never stopped
until she had come to her home.
Now it happened that the day before this very woman had borrowed
just such a loaf of bread from the rich man's wife; and so, as
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: than to the persistent vision of grave offended eyes...
During the drive back to the hotel this vision was
persistently kept before him by the thought that the evening
post might have brought a letter from Mrs. Leath. Even if
no letter had yet come, his servant might have telegraphed
to say that one was on its way; and at the thought his
interest in the girl at his side again cooled to the
fraternal, the almost fatherly. She was no more to him,
after all, than an appealing young creature to whom it was
mildly agreeable to have offered an evening's diversion; and
when, as they rolled into the illuminated court of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: almost as much as it was lost here through the indomitable Washington and
the help of France. That is the actual state of the case, there is the
truth. Did you hear much about this at school? Did you ever learn there
that George III had a fake Parliament, largely elected by fake votes,
which did not represent the English people; that this fake Parliament was
autocracy's last ditch in England; that it choked for a time the English
democracy which, after the setback given it by the excesses of the French
Revolution, went forward again until to-day the King of England has less
power than the President of the United States? I suppose everybody in the
world who knows the important steps of history knows this--except the
average American. From him it has been concealed by his school histories;
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