| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: case. Of all living persons, he is least likely to ridicule what
I shall tell of that fateful night.
I did not enlighten him
orally before sailing, because I think he had better have the
revelation in written form. Reading and re-reading at leisure
will leave with him a more convincing picture than my confused
tongue could hope to convey.
He can do anything that he thinks
best with this account - showing it, with suitable comment, in
any quarters where it will be likely to accomplish good. It is
for the sake of such readers as are unfamiliar with the earlier
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: been cut with the sharpest axe in Quebec.
III
A HAPPY ENDING WHICH IS ALSO A BEGINNING
The plan of going back to St. Gedeon, to wait for the return of the
lawyer, was not carried out. Several of the little gods that use
their own indiscretion in arranging the pieces on the puzzle-map of
life, interfered with it.
The first to meddle was that highly irresponsible deity with the bow
and arrows, who has no respect for rank or age, but reserves all his
attention for sex.
When the camp on the St. Maurice dissolved, Jean went down with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: out of consideration for my deceased uncle."
"Why not for me too?" said Goupil maliciously, instantly suspecting a
secret motive in Minoret's conduct. "Isn't it through information you
got from me that you make twenty-four thousand a year from that land,
without a single enclosure, around the Chateau du Rouvre? The fields
and the mill the other side of the Loing make sixteen thousand more.
Come, old fellow, do you mean to play fair with me?"
"Yes."
"If I wanted to show my teeth I could coax Massin to buy the Rouvre
estate, park, gardens, preserves, and timber--"
"You'd better think twice before you do that," said Zelie, suddenly
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