| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: afternoon, my father and I were astonished to see a great number of
Boers assembled there, and among them a certain sprinkling of their
younger womankind, who had come on horseback or in carts.
"Good gracious!" I said to my father; "if I had known there was to be
such a fuss as this about a shooting match, I don't think I could have
faced it."
"Hum," he answered; "I think there is more in the wind than your match.
Unless I am much mistaken, it has been made the excuse of a public
meeting in a secluded spot, so as to throw the Authorities off the
scent."
As a matter of fact, my father was quite right. Before we arrived there
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: novices, who came of the age for service, and marched and drilled
and mounted guard for the proper time among the garrison of
Algiers. Here was a man who had surely seen both sides of life
before deciding; yet as soon as he was set free from service he
returned to finish his novitiate.
This austere rule entitles a man to heaven as by right. When the
Trappist sickens, he quits not his habit; he lies in the bed of
death as he has prayed and laboured in his frugal and silent
existence; and when the Liberator comes, at the very moment, even
before they have carried him in his robe to lie his little last in
the chapel among continual chantings, joy-bells break forth, as if
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Aspern Papers by Henry James: It was as if she were a little shy, a little ashamed now of letting me
see how much she had entered into my uneasiness and had me on her mind.
Suddenly she said to me, without any immediate relevance:
"I feel as if you were a new person, now that you have got a new name."
"It isn't a new one; it is a very good old one, thank heaven!"
She looked at me a moment. "I do like it better."
"Oh, if you didn't I would almost go on with the other!"
"Would you really?"
I laughed again, but for all answer to this inquiry I said,
"Of course if she can rummage about that way she can perfectly
have burnt them."
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