| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: order to share their husbands' fate. Curiously enough, the essay
concludes with these words, almost prophetic for the unhappy
reader: "I am enforced to live, and sometimes to live is
magnanimity." Whilst Georges went to fetch a cab, the widow
released Gaudry from his place of concealment, exhorted him to
have courage, and promised him, if he succeeded, the
accomplishment of his desire. And so the gay couple departed for
the ball. There the widow's high spirits, her complete
enjoyment, were remarked by more than one of her acquaintances;
she danced one dance with her lover, and with another young man
made an engagement for the following week.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Vailima Prayers & Sabbath Morn by Robert Louis Stevenson: average Samoan is but a larger child in most things, and would lay
an uneasy head on his wooden pillow if he had not joined, even
perfunctorily, in the evening service. With my husband, prayer,
the direct appeal, was a necessity. When he was happy he felt
impelled to offer thanks for that undeserved joy; when in sorrow,
or pain, to call for strength to bear what must be borne.
Vailima lay up some three miles of continual rise from Apia, and
more than half that distance from the nearest village. It was a
long way for a tired man to walk down every evening with the sole
purpose of joining in family worship; and the road through the bush
was dark, and, to the Samoan imagination, beset with supernatural
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: "Oh too far for you ever to find me!"
"I'd find you anywhere."
The tone of this was so still more serious that she had but her one
acknowledgement. "I'd do anything for you--I'd do anything for
you," she repeated. She had already, she felt, said it all; so
what did anything more, anything less, matter? That was the very
reason indeed why she could, with a lighter note, ease him
generously of any awkwardness produced by solemnity, either his own
or hers. "Of course it must be nice for you to be able to think
there are people all about who feel in such a way."
In immediate appreciation of this, however, he only smoked without
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