| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: Reverend H. B. Gage.
You may ask on what authority I speak. It was my inclement destiny
to become acquainted, not with Damien, but with Dr. Hyde. When I
visited the lazaretto, Damien was already in his resting grave.
But such information as I have, I gathered on the spot in
conversation with those who knew him well and long: some indeed who
revered his memory; but others who had sparred and wrangled with
him, who beheld him with no halo, who perhaps regarded him with
small respect, and through whose unprepared and scarcely partial
communications the plain, human features of the man shone on me
convincingly. These gave me what knowledge I possess; and I learnt
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: Set down the kids, yet shall we reach the town;
Or, if we fear the night may gather rain
Ere we arrive, then singing let us go,
Our way to lighten; and, that we may thus
Go singing, I will case you of this load.
MOERIS
Cease, boy, and get we to the work in hand:
We shall sing better when himself is come.
ECLOGUE X
GALLUS
This now, the very latest of my toils,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: you with grapes--when you have run to me and searched in all my pockets for
a cigarette--knowing perfectly well where they were kept--going through
every pocket just the same--I knowing too--I keeping up the farce--do you
suppose that now you have finally lighted your bonfire you are going to
find it a peaceful and pleasant thing--you are going to prevent the whole
house from burning?"
She suddenly turned white and drew in her breath sharply.
"Don't talk to me like that. You have no right to talk to me like that. I
am another man's wife."
"Hum," he sneered, throwing back his head, "that's rather late in the game,
and that's been your trump card all along. You only love Victor on the
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