| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: before him with bowed head and wept. When she spoke again her voice was broken
and pleading.
"You are cruel and unjust. Though Myeerah has Indian blood she is a white
woman. She can feel as your people do. In your anger and bitterness you forget
that Myeerah saved you from the knife of the Shawnees. You forget her
tenderness; you forget that she nursed you when you were wounded. Myeerah has
a heart to break. Has she not suffered? Is she not laughed at, scorned, called
a 'paleface' by the other tribes? She thanks the Great Spirit for the Indian
blood that keep her true. The white man changes his loves and his wives. That
is not an Indian gift."
"No, Myeerah, I did not say so. There is no other woman. It is that I am
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: their hands," Wilding reminded them, and a murmur of approval ran round,
which but served to anger Grey the more, to render more obstinate his
opposition.
"But all that come in are not unprovided," was his lordship's retort.
"There are the Hampshire gentry and their friends. They will come armed,
and so will others if we have patience.
"Aye," said Wilding, "and if you have patience enough there will be
troops the Parliament will send against us. They, too, will be armed,
I can assure your lordship."
"In God's name let us keep from wrangling," the Duke besought them.
"It is difficult enough to determine for the best. If the dash to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: little memorandum, interest so much and commission so much, total
deduction thirty francs, then he subtracted fifty francs for
Ducerceau's book; finally, from a cash-box full of coin, he took four
hundred and twenty francs.
"Look here, though, M. Chaboisseau, the bills are either all of them
good, or all bad alike; why don't you take the rest?"
"This is not discounting; I am paying myself for a sale," said the old
man.
Etienne and Lucien were still laughing at Chaboisseau, without
understanding him, when they reached Dauriat's shop, and Etienne asked
Gabusson to give them the name of a bill-broker. Gabusson thus
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