| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: and where roads and newspapers lay everything open? Dearest
Miss Morland, what ideas have you been admitting?"
They had reached the end of the gallery, and with
tears of shame she ran off to her own room.
CHAPTER 25
The visions of romance were over. Catherine was
completely awakened. Henry's address, short as it had been,
had more thoroughly opened her eyes to the extravagance of her
late fancies than all their several disappointments had done.
Most grievously was she humbled. Most bitterly did she cry.
It was not only with herself that she was sunk--but
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: season than wit. The same observer who conveyed to him this
warning thinks that, if Brandeis had himself visited the districts
and inquired into complaints, the blow might yet have been averted
and the government saved. At last, upon a certain unconstitutional
act of Tamasese, the discontent took life and fire. The act was of
his own conception; the dull dog was ambitious. Brandeis declares
he would not be dissuaded; perhaps his adviser did not seriously
try, perhaps did not dream that in that welter of contradictions,
the Samoan constitution, any one point would be considered sacred.
I have told how Tamasese assumed the title of Tuiatua. In August
1888 a year after his installation, he took a more formidable step
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: proved by the actual products of the soil. Numerous plants which in
many parts of the world appear as stunted leafless growths are here
fruit-bearing. And as with the soil so with the sea indenting our
coasts, the varied productivity of which is exceptionally great. Again
with regard to those kindly fruits of earth[3] which Providence
bestows on man season by season, one and all they commence earlier and
end later in this land. Nor is the supremacy of Attica shown only in
those products which year after year flourish and grow old, but the
land contains treasures of a more perennial kind. Within its folds
lies imbedded by nature an unstinted store of marble, out of which are
chiselled[4] temples and altars of rarest beauty and the glittering
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