| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: meaning?"
"He was to make you take me," I replied, "and I would not have it. I
said you should be free, and I must speak with you alone; little I
supposed it would be such a speaking! 'AND WHAT IF I REFUSE?' said he.
- 'THEN IT MUST COME TO THE THROAT-CUTTING,' says I, 'FOR I WILL NO
MORE HAVE A HUSBAND FORCED ON THAT YOUNG LADY, THAN WHAT I WOULD HAVE A
WIFE FORCED UPON MYSELF.' These were my words, they were a friend's
words; bonnily have I paid for them! Now you have refused me of your
own clear free will, and there lives no father in the Highlands, or out
of them, that can force on this marriage. I will see that your wishes
are respected; I will make the same my business, as I have all through.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: expression of intelligent interest-we had soup, a plate of
meat and cabbage, and tea. Then there is a wagon
bookshop, where, while customers buy books, a
gramophone sings the revolutionary songs of Demian
Bledny, or speaks with the eloquence ofTrotsky or the logic
of Lenin. Other wagons are the living-rooms of the
personnel, divided up according to their duties-political,
military, instructional, and so forth. For the train has not
merely an agitational purpose. It carries with it a staff to
give advice to local authorities, to explain what has not been
understood, and so in every way to bring the ideas of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: has fuel, provisions and water for a month, I believe you said,
Plesser; there are ten of us to man it. We have a last sad duty
here--we must search for Miss La Rue and Mr. Tyler. I say a sad
duty because we know that we shall not find them; but it is none
the less our duty to comb the shoreline, firing signal shells at
intervals, that we at least may leave at last with full knowledge
that we have done all that men might do to locate them."
None dissented from this conviction, nor was there a voice raised
in protest against the plan to at least make assurance doubly
sure before quitting Caspak forever.
And so they started, cruising slowly up the coast and firing an
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