| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: until she grew quite flushed. I have heard the reverse process going
on between a Scotswoman and a French girl; and the arguments in the
two cases were identical. Each apostle based her claim on the
superior virtue and attainments of her clergy, and clenched the
business with a threat of hell-fire. 'PAS BONG PRETRES ICI,' said
the Presbyterian, 'BONG PRETRES EN ECOSSE.' And the postmaster's
daughter, taking up the same weapon, plied me, so to speak, with the
butt of it instead of the bayonet. We are a hopeful race, it seems,
and easily persuaded for our good. One cheerful circumstance I note
in these guerilla missions, that each side relies on hell, and
Protestant and Catholic alike address themselves to a supposed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: If I could find a higher tree
Farther and farther I should see,
To where the grown-up river slips
Into the sea among the ships,
To where the road on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land,
Where all the children dine at five,
And all the playthings come alive.
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Windy Nights
Whenever the moon and stars are set,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: black caves six of the most beautiful ladies ever seen: they had
flowers in their hair, and the most beautiful breasts, and
necklaces of scarlet seeds; and began to jest with these young
gentlemen, and the young gentlemen to jest back with them, all but
Lotu. As for Lotu, he saw there could be no living woman in such a
place, and ran, and flung himself in the bottom of the boat, and
covered his face, and prayed. All the time the business lasted
Lotu made one clean break of prayer, and that was all he knew of
it, until his friends came back, and made him sit up, and they put
to sea again out of the bay, which was now quite desert, and no
word of the six ladies. But, what frightened Lotu most, not one of
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