| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they
are wisest. They are the magi.
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad: pieces. . . Captain Harry thinks: Nervous; can't be anything wrong
with the door. But he says: Thanks - never mind, never mind. . .
All hands looking out now for the life-boat. Everybody thinking of
himself rather. Cloete asks himself, will they miss him? But the
fact is that Mr. Stafford had made such poor show at sea that after
the ship struck nobody ever paid any attention to him. Nobody
cared what he did or where he was. Pitch dark, too - no counting
of heads. The light of the tug with the lifeboat in tow is seen
making for the ship, and Captain Harry asks: Are we all there? . .
. Somebody answers: All here, sir. . . Stand by to leave the ship,
then, says Captain Harry; and two of you help the gentleman over
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: "You drunken scoundrel!" he roared. "How dare you!"
"Dare!" Rochester laughed recklessly. "Jimmie kept his wits to the
last; his mind was clear; he recognized you in the prisoner's pen
and he tried to call you, but his palsied tongue could not say Ben,
but stuttered - B - b - b."
"And what did he wish to tell me?" gasped Clymer, down whose
colorless face perspiration trickled.
"Aye, what?" broke in Kent significantly.
"Jimmie may not have gotten the information he wished at your house,
Colonel McIntyre, but his presence there on Monday night showed the
forger he was in danger, and like the human snake he is, he poisoned
The Red Seal |
